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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7377 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes  12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 49 of 59 04 October 2011 at 9:11pm | IP Logged | ||
The poll system is based on cookies and sometimes multiple votes are possible. The post voting system is based on a unique record of the user and the post so no double voting is possible. I inherited the former from the guy who initially programmed all this, while I designed the latter myself. I think negative votes would put a very negative ambiance and discourage people from posting anything that would not be crowd-pleasing. If you look at the statistical table of the members who got the most votes, it does, I think, reflect fairly the quality of their contribution here. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7377 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 50 of 59 04 October 2011 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | ||
Arturs, this great feature does exist (I think only for Pro members) and is accessible from the second tab on the Active topics: more page. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5416 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 51 of 59 05 October 2011 at 3:37am | IP Logged | ||
Pretty sure I never said it was. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek Edited by nway on 05 October 2011 at 3:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5210 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 52 of 59 05 October 2011 at 5:26am | IP Logged | ||
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"Yes" to positive votes; "absolutely no" to negative votes. But perhaps a second type of button might also be handy, to distinguish between utility and enjoyment/ agreement? Or, if you really want to get fancy, there could be three vote buttons: "Useful", "I agree", and "I enjoyed this" (or whatever phraseology seems best).
It seems that people often vote for a post as a way of indicating the latter two responses. And while that's probably better than having a lot of one-line "me too" or "LOL" follow-up posts that I've seen on other forums, it does make it hard to differentiate the informative from the amusing. "No" to being able to see who has voted for you. The anonymous voting system seems to work quite well, as far as I can see. No need to complicate things. If I get any votes for a post, it's enough for me to know that someone found it useful, or enjoyed it. (Okay, to be honest - it's probably even enough just to know that someone actually read it.) And "yes, please" to being able to correct one's votes. Perhaps within a particular time window, as with the "edit" function? But this feature's a lot lower on my wish list. But really, I'm just grateful to have found this forum, and to be able to read you folks. So many of your posts are both informative and amusing - and often inspiring as well! Buttons, or no buttons, the rest is icing on the linguistic cake. Edited to add: as long as the "edit" button remains..! Edited by songlines on 05 October 2011 at 6:54am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Remster Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4806 days ago 120 posts - 134 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, French | Message 53 of 59 05 October 2011 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Perhaps you could split the vote system up in two systems.
One for linguistically useful and interesting content and one for ''funny'' posts. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 54 of 59 09 October 2011 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used to use Amazon's kindle discussion forum, which has "yes" and "no" votes. Some people ended up attracting trolls who voted them down out of spite, regardless of the merits of their point. I stopped using the forums because of how nasty people were towards each other, and it was partly due to negative votes (although negative voting was probably more of the result of nastiness, not the orginal cause).
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| 이희선 Groupie Australia Joined 4970 days ago 56 posts - 97 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 55 of 59 09 February 2012 at 4:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't have any particular opinion about the votes, but I do know that I accidentally click on the "Useful? Click to
VOTE for this post button" and there seems to be no way to Undo. Not that I would usually mind but I accidentally voted on a post I didn't find useful at all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 56 of 59 09 February 2012 at 4:39am | IP Logged | ||
I provided a fix for this some time ago: Moving the ’vote’ link out of the way 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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