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Poll Question: Which voting options do you prefer?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
positive votes only	95	[65.07%]
no votes	19	[13.01%]
positive and negative votes	27	[18.49%]
negative votes only	5	[3.42%]
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Serpent
Octoglot
Senior Member
Russian Federation
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Joined 6598 days ago
9753 posts - 15779 votes

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Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

Message 57 of 59

09 February 2012 at 10:50am | IP Logged

I have to say I'm quite offended by the fact that I can't see directly which of my posts have got votes. This is what I get in return for posting them???
Before I got like 160-170 votes, I'd check obsessively, see how many days ago the post was sent, then see in what threads I posted that day (I can only directly see my ten latest posts), and finally I'd go to these threads and find the new votes. I no longer bother but I still feel this is totally unfair.

I mean I sorta understand why some features are paid only (though the logic of "you've written 1500 posts, you've contributed so much, now how about paying" is flawed), but there's a huge difference between seeing other people's best posts and seeing your own. If your posts are good enough to get votes, you deserve to see which ones do.
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Asiafeverr
Diglot
Senior Member
Hong Kong
Joined 6343 days ago
346 posts - 431 votes

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Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German

Message 58 of 59

09 February 2012 at 11:42am | IP Logged

We already have the report feature to deal with trolls and very low quality posts; I
think negative votes will only scare away genuine users without adding any value that's
not already in existing features. Instead of punishing low quality content you should
focus high quality posts (eg. make a search feature that ranks posts by the number of
votes they got, have a votes leaderboard, etc).
2 persons have voted this message useful

이희선
Groupie
Australia
Joined 4970 days ago
56 posts - 97 votes

Speaks: English*
Studies: Russian

Message 59 of 59

09 February 2012 at 12:18pm | IP Logged

mrwarper wrote:

이희선 wrote:

... 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.

I provided a fix for this some time ago:
Moving the ’vote’ link out of the way

Thanks! I'll take a look and see if I can get it working on Chrome ^^

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