Should I remove negative votes on news stories?
dino_bobba_renno @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:12 pm
Have there been any problems associated with negative voting? I don't recall any news articles being hit with a ton of negative votes but to be honest I haven't been paying enough attention to it to have really noticed it. Like the saying goes, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
As for the voting idea over all I do like it and would like to keep it around, kind of gives ya a warm fuzzy feeling when an article you post has top marks. 
Brenda @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:16 pm
The fact that this thread has been running for 3 pages, says enough.
It is the internet people, geesh, lighten up!
wildrosegirl @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:16 pm
RUEZ RUEZ:
WDHIII WDHIII:
Oh and I DO realize that, and the abuse that has taken place in the past really had no bearing on how the story did. In fact its quite laughable the extent some people went to
yes it was THAT obvious
yes it was THAT obvious
Weren't you and Kitty having a contest to see who could get the most votes? Is that why it bothers you?
*zips it*
RUEZ @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:18 pm
Brenda Brenda:
The fact that this thread has been running for 3 pages, says enough.
It is the internet people, geesh, lighten up!
It is the internet people, geesh, lighten up!
I agree. It's a bunch of votes that mean nothing to anyone. Hell some of my comments on the CBC website get voted right off the page. I don't worry about it, not everyone is as smart as me.
wildrosegirl @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:18 pm
WDHIII WDHIII:
Well theres a first
How would you know? Thought you didn't know who I was?
QBC @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:20 pm
WDHIII WDHIII:
Im assuming you USED to be someone but I thought forum rules dictated that if you changed your nic that you had to inform everyone yet I cant find a thread on that.
That's not a rule.
RUEZ @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:20 pm
wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:
WDHIII WDHIII:
Well theres a first
How would you know? Thought you didn't know who I was?
wildrosegirl @ Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:24 pm
WDHIII WDHIII:
wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:
WDHIII WDHIII:
Well theres a first
How would you know? Thought you didn't know who I was?
LOL just wanted to see if youd admit it.
I see youve gone from CAMO to downright stealthy
"admit"?
OY.. honestly.
Canadaka @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:23 am
QBC QBC:
Nope...nuke news voting and rating by hits, nuke the rep points. That would take care of all the BS from both sides who abused it.
I am not removing either, people like these kind of things, you may not. The only reason I may remove negative news voting is because it adds nothing and its original purpose is no longer valid.
What I was also thinkin of doing is changing the news system either further, to rely less on people having to submit news. What i was thinking is using multiple news sources like the ones on the http://www.canadaka.net/newswatch page. Have a backend ssytem scan there RSS feeds and try to combine simular articles. The "dropped" page would then be changed to "Upcoming" and would be auto populated with these automated news stores.
For a story to jump from upcoming to the frontpage it would just need a couple votes.
So for the people who regularly submit news, they could just scan this upcoming page and vote for the stories they think are news worthy, rather than manualy filling out the title, link, description.
I would still allow manualy submissions for news stories not from the predefiend sources. And the News Moderators would still have to select which stories are features and add photos. Actually anyone can add a photo to a story without one.
Does that make sense? This is simular to how www.bloggingcanadians.ca works.
I was also going to add a little button on the homepage at the top of the news_links to sort that days links by popularity rather than by time.
romanP @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:32 am
WDHIII WDHIII:
Well maybe but when someone goes to great lengths to add input to the site and some 12 year old votes them down not because of content (and this has NOTHING to do with "party lines") but because of WHO posted them.........
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
Or because they're afraid people might discuss the issue.
RUEZ @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:37 am
romanP romanP:
Or because they're afraid people might discuss the issue.
Voting down a news article can't prevent you from discussing something in the forum. If it's important to you just start a thread about it.
romanP @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:43 am
RUEZ RUEZ:
WDHIII WDHIII:
Well maybe but when someone goes to great lengths to add input to the site and some 12 year old votes them down not because of content (and this has NOTHING to do with "party lines") but because of WHO posted them.........
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
How does anyone know why someone voted their story down?
It's pretty obvious if you pay any attention to what's been said in previous threads on the same topic.
$1:
And does it really matter?
If it didn't matter, nobody would bother posting.
$1:
If a story is good and stands on it's own people are going to read it despite the number of votes beside the title.
Not if it gets voted down to the Dropped pile before too many people know it's even there because the people voting it down don't like the subject matter, nevermind the merit of discussing it. I've seen it happen, and you were an involved party.
$1:
I ask again, what harm is having a voting system?
Says the person that abuses it.
I originally voted no for the poll, but I realise now I should have voted yes.
RUEZ @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:23 am
romanP romanP:
RUEZ RUEZ:
WDHIII WDHIII:
Well maybe but when someone goes to great lengths to add input to the site and some 12 year old votes them down not because of content (and this has NOTHING to do with "party lines") but because of WHO posted them.........
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
How does anyone know why someone voted their story down?
It's pretty obvious if you pay any attention to what's been said in previous threads on the same topic.
$1:
And does it really matter?
If it didn't matter, nobody would bother posting.
$1:
If a story is good and stands on it's own people are going to read it despite the number of votes beside the title.
Not if it gets voted down to the Dropped pile before too many people know it's even there because the people voting it down don't like the subject matter, nevermind the merit of discussing it. I've seen it happen, and you were an involved party.
$1:
I ask again, what harm is having a voting system?
Says the person that abuses it.
I originally voted no for the poll, but I realise now I should have voted yes.
Damn rights I've voted your news articles down. Boo Hoo, that's what it's there for. I vote down stories I don't like, just as I've had stories voted down. If you can't handle it don't post news. Why do people take this crap so seriously?