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Ability to vote on comments (a la reddit or youtube)
zethcarn
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Have each comment start off at +1 and if it's gets upvoted above +1 then display it next to the comment. If it gets downvoted below +1 then keep the score hidden from everyone including the person who posted it. This way people will appreciate high voted comments but won't feel punished if their comment gets downvoted to oblivion (whether by trolls or normal people).
We can even take this further and have the User Rank be affected by the quality of your comments. A lot of high voted comments will increase your User Rank. A lot of bad comments could decrease your User Rank.
I've been a member since 2004 and my rank doesn't really mean anything to me because I feel just because a post is long it doesn't necessarily means it's high quality. Therefore I don't take the ranking system seriously at all.
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Hi there,
We've discussed this in various forms in the past and not really sure where we're at with this right now. If we do it, we need to ensure that it isn't open to abuse. It's a valuble tool to be sure, but we just need to be careful about if it we do implement it.
Allow a person to turn off votes for their own comments and you have a winner.
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Simple up vote and down vote number in the header line, signifying nothing, affecting nothing.
+1
It sounds like an appealing idea at first, but I think all it would do in the long term is just cause more headaches for you guys on the moderating staff.
If you dont do stupid things while youre young, youll have nothing to smile about when youre old.
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
You can't downvote or upvote unless you leave a comment of about x words length to the post in question?
It might deter people who want to abuse the system anonymously.
It might be positive for the post(er) in question to know who voted him/her up/down and the reason why.
If it signifies nothing and affects nothing then why would it be done?
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I'd vote for this :P
Well I think it would be a good idea, but they do need to be careful in how to implement it. I would say what others have said wehre you can only + or like something, no need for downvotes.
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
--Macbeth A5S5
....cause it makes Bill Shakespeare happy? Seems vaguely appropriate to a lot of topics we see frequently repeated...
I dunno, Punish The Miscreants seems to be the primary development goal of voting systems. Attack dog without teeth that gums burglars?
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I'm more partial to this as well. Less room for abuse and griefing.
I think it'd be a great system if you could only +1 people.
Downvote would get abused and anything more serious you already have Report features.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
+1 for this:).. i'd also re-adjust peoples titles to reflect their +1's sort of work it into the star system in some way
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Sounds good to me, prevents people from abusing the system.
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Yes I watched this happen in the LOTRO forums, I seen folks get so called dog piled on who would saysomething negative. I actually once got a downvote from sapience and got a pm message from him to as why.
I would got +1 put not downvotes. There are folks in these forums who would enjoy tearing certain posters a new one, and I think that would be a bad idea.
No.
Because rep bombing would start with people having/making alt accounts. Don't believe me? Look at the World of Tanks forums where downvoting was taken off because of this reason.
I'm against a voting system. People will be afraid to post unpopular ideas in fear of being downvoted to oblivion. The ideas posted should be judged fairly without the influence of the "popluar" vote. Leave that stuff to YouTube and Reddit. Nobody should fear in sharing their opinion, or having theirs immediately decided by a post that is "popular".
If in 1982 we played with the current mentality, we would have burned down all the pac man games since the red ghost was clearly OP. Instead we just got better at the game.
I like itas well and commented on another thread how that's the way it should be. It would actually be benificial to see others who do not like posting either way to participate in a discussion, even if it's only a vote for support on a opinion they happen to agree with. Negative nancys, on the other hand, are going to comment either way so there is no need to give them a easy way to dogpile someone.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
I agree, + votes or likes will have the same desired effect, but without the trolling capacity.
If there was a +/Like feature right now, I'd give it to these posts ---^
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