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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 1 of 59 24 February 2011 at 1:40am | IP Logged | ||
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This topic came up in the senior member sub-forum, so I thought it appropriate to take a poll (I should hold a poll
about adding choices to the polls too - 5 just isn't enough some times). I'd like to discuss having the ability to erase or change a vote too. It's pretty easy to accidentally vote for someone, as many of us have found out. And one other topic - I would enjoy seeing who voted for me; how about you? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5465 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 2 of 59 24 February 2011 at 2:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Negative votes are an awful idea - what a great way to scare lots of people away from the
forum! I also think it would be nice to see who voted for me. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3 of 59 24 February 2011 at 2:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd rather keep the votes anonymous. It's nice enough for me to see that some of my posts get some votes for usefulness. I'm not that interested in the identity of those who really valued my posts. Besides this isn't a political body where one can see who voted for whom/what.
I'm ambivalent towards negative/"uselessness" votes. In fact instead of votes for a post's usefulness or not, I'd prefer it when other posters make comments about or add to the posts, and so let the discussion continue or be refined. It's great for instance to see that Volte's list of free and legal audiobooks has a lot of votes for usefulness. Yet let's be honest: is it the list's content that's important or rather its quantity of votes? 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 4 of 59 24 February 2011 at 3:28am | IP Logged | ||
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I also support the idea of being able to remove a vote as I'm quite prone to accidentally clicking the "Useful? Click to VOTE for this post!" button. I agree with TixhiiDon though; negative votes would be a horrible idea. The positive voting system that we have now encourages people to write useful and helpful contributions, but negative votes would just make people not want to write at all for fear that someone might disagree and they would be "awarded" a negative vote. I'm also curious to see who has voted for me, but it's not such a loss if I don't know. We would only be able to see who has voted for our own posts, right?
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| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5427 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 5 of 59 24 February 2011 at 4:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes; the last thing we need is scaring people away from voicing their opinions out of fear that they might receive a
negative vote! 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5272 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 6 of 59 24 February 2011 at 9:17am | IP Logged | ||
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It would be a great feature to this forum, if I could see the specific posts that I have voted useful for myself!
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 8 of 59 24 February 2011 at 10:46am | IP Logged | ||
Even negative votes wouldn't shut me up! 7 persons have voted this message useful |
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