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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5968 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 34 of 59 27 February 2011 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just made a thread in the Technical Room about poll problems so we have all forum bug issues placed together in one room. I tried logging out and in but that didn't reset my voting rights, but a few minutes later, I've returned to this thread and now I have the option to cast another vote.
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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 35 of 59 27 February 2011 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Strange, I haven't seen any glitches. It's consistently told me "You have already voted in this poll."
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 36 of 59 27 February 2011 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | ||
Contrary to me. I voted on another day. Today I can read "Cast my vote". Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 27 February 2011 at 7:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 37 of 59 27 February 2011 at 8:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Alright. I just logged off and back in and it says "cast my vote."
But this is also distracting from the topic of this thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lightning Groupie United Kingdom livelanguagelove.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5339 days ago 58 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 38 of 59 06 March 2011 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm for positive and negative votes, there's been times when I've been reading through a discussion and I'll come across a random post that brings nothing to the discussion and in all fairness, could be considered as spam, so it would be cool to negative vote it. If it received so many negative votes, it would be 'hidden' but can still be viewable if people want to read it. I've seen this implemented on other communities and I quite liked it ~ :)
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| simonov Senior Member Portugal Joined 5590 days ago 222 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English | Message 39 of 59 16 July 2011 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Now this is why I think these votes mean nothing: some people write really useful answers to someone's query and get no votes for their pains. Whereas others get masses of votes for just opening their mouths, for posts that are neither interesting nor useful, just because the poster is acclaimed as an experienced polyglot. This one post for instance. What was so useful about that post? It wasn't even funny. I have nothing against the poster personally, I don't know him, but I think that the content of this particular post did not warrant the votes it got. Those votes are a joke, the post itself isn't. And votes attributed to nondescript posts are plentiful, I'm afraid.
Because of that kind of vote-scattering the whole system becomes pretty useless. Like Patuco, I personally give very few votes, except when there's something that I find really useful, not just for me, but for others as well. Like outcast's posts about linking, and about changing the background colour of pages. Because that was something that had been irritating me for a long time. But... that was useful just for me and a handful of others, and means nothing in the whole concept of how-to-learn-any-language. Edit: Sorry, I forgot to say that I voted "No votes" as I trust neither positive nor negative votes, they're all too subjective and often given for the totally wrong reason. Edited by simonov on 17 July 2011 at 11:41pm 12 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 40 of 59 16 July 2011 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I voted for Simonov's post...
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