New Feature: Up/Down Voting Posts
 

We have been playing around with up/down vote functionality for the past couple of weeks and just activated it in the Lounge prior to this thread.

1. Everyone can vote a post up or down. The vote totals themselves show up on the bottom right of the post. You can't vote on your own posts (the up/down vote is hidden), but you will see the totals once it's voted on.
2. If a post meets some criteria for being "good," the post will be given a yellow border (so that others are drawn to the "good posts" in a big thread).
3. Similarly, if a post meets some criteria for a "bad post," it will be shaded. If a post meets criteria for a "terrible post," it will be shown collapsed with a red bar. The red bar of a collapsed post shows the user's name, and you can click a button at the right to show the post.
4. This functionality doesn't mess with the order of posts.

I'm using "some criteria" only because we're sure it'll change. The border, shading, and collapsed posts are based on the difference between up and down votes, not a total number of one or the other. We'll be making adjustments based on usage, especially with collapsed posts.

We have questions about whether it'll work here vs a place like reddit. A few of us like the idea while others have brought up legitimate concerns. In the end, we decided to roll it out, at least temporarily.

This is a trial run.

We'll give it a week or two depending on how things go, then we'll put it to a vote as long as it's not an obviously terrible idea. The goal is make threads a little easier to scroll through -- easier to find the best contributions and easier to scroll past the trolling and derailments. We aren't out to completely hide posts and will adjust as needed to keep that percentage really low, or based on your feedback.

This should be especially fun for us outsiders.

This is a horrible idea!!!!!


(Now you ****ers have to figure out whether to vote this post up or down. :evil:)

This is a great idea.. I have wanted to "like" posts for some time, without just putting in a message that says... "YEAH.. THAT.."

Yeah, I personally think it'll be a nice feature if we can find the right limits for the various actions described in the OP. I'd love to be able to peruse a 500+ post thread and see a gold box every page or two that highlights quality posts.

Conversely, if someone's just mucking up threads all over the place, I'd love for the mods to not have to be the ones to make the call for a user getting booted for the thread and to let the community figure it out collectively.

But time will tell if it actually works or not.

Interesting to see what will happen to certain posts from a few specific users...

LOL, "certain" posts, "specific" users...

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Will it be in DC?

Voting myself thumbs down.
I see it is

So, you're saying my posts will be blacked out, collapsed, and have flames coming off of them ?

I personally, think its bullshit that you cant up or down vote the op. MAKE IT HAPPEN DAFACE, YOU SONOFABITCH

Is there such thing as a "good" post in DC? Want us to just put a thumbs down icon in DC?

I know. It does really screwy things when the OP ends up hidden, unfortunately.

I was going to try to come up with random troll post to test the thumbs down function but you already had several on this one. I'll just go with the flow and give this post a thumbs down.

Good point.

LMAO

I would like to see the up posts in green and the down posts in red

They are a little hard to see but I love the idea

Congrats on roll out

I think it's just gonna turn into another form of popularity or shamming.

Like me going around and putting a thumbs down on all of Billay's posts.

LMAO

It may cut down on extra responses or back and forth responses.

We shall see! :hmmm:

Use it correctly you butt****ing moron.

I've been a member here for 12 years. I've NEVER neg repped someone.

I can guarantee you I'll be down voting the **** out of the resident dumbasses though.

The thumb icons themselves are green (up) and red (down) once they have been clicked on.

You're ****ed, Tiger.

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Eat shit Mod****!

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LMAO

You are either a really really nice guy, a cuck or gay beyond belief. :rolleyes:

Did you not know how to NEG REP someone? :hmmm:

Great another ****ing mob tool.

Soooo..... Boobs?

I vote moron instead of getting hidden, get replaced by boob pics. Like cycle through some album on imgur on Allison Stokke or something.

One of my favorite pastimes is turning idiot threads into boob threads. If we could automate the system that would be outstanding.

Just caught that thanks!:clap:

How many likes do you have to get to get the post noticed?

None of my posts have a yellow border yet?

You can't upvote/downvote OPs?

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Can as many people as possible please downvote post #3? I want to see the effects in action so I can see if they affect the forum on tapatalk.

Also, it doesn't show who is doing the up/down voting at all, huh?

Edit: Sorry, daface. I only mentioned your post because it already had the most downvotes.

That would screw with the flow of the conversation. You'll have to settle for shaming the author of the OP into deleting it.

I don't see them. Is it because I'm running the black beta skin? Mobile? iOS? Denver thing?

I know how.

Just feel like I'd rather call them an asshole in public rather than hiding behind rep.

JMO.

11 downvotes and I can still see that bitch.

WTF, Face?

LMAO

It's because of the black template... I can add it, but not sure how well they'll show up with that background.

Black beta skin?

Once you go black...

Blame it on Smellway. **** Donk Forever.

As of right now it has 4 ups and 13 downs. So it has a net rating of negative nine. From the OP:

The border, shading, and collapsed posts are based on the difference between up and down votes, not a total number of one or the other.

Everybody's gotta thumb a little harder here.

Still, that's a pretty negative ratio. That's like 75% negative.

WTF does it take?

At a deficit of 11 post 3 went gray.

You should see them now.

At work style does not have vote buttons. That is my default! :deevee:

It also does not change post #3 with this style

If a post gets 10 downvotes it should be collapsed.

I like it being a difference situation. Maybe a percentage rather than a hard number.

Also the incremental move of greying it out is good. There should be very few actual collapsed posts IMO.

I still want access to the black skin. Sounds awesome.

Yeah, I'm playing with those now. Sorry in advance if I break it.

Dark Mode beta at the bottom left of any page.

Giddy the mother**** up.

SO much better.

Thanks! I'll upvote!

I think the idea here is to err on the side of caution. Genuine boring shit posts most likely won't have a problem meeting the goals. And they can alter the goals if necessary anyway.

LMAO

YOU'RE MISSING OUT

Na, downvote it to hell. The nice thing about this system is that it's post-specific, so it's not like I have some aura of shitty posts hanging around me or anything.

You don't think there's enough people on this board that dislike you enough to get every one of your posts to ten downvotes?

Daface's post is now grayed out.

And it is a lighter grey than the background in the Dark Mode Beta style. :thumb:

You should see them now.

Thread derailments are what make Chiefsmy micropenissplanet.

I see 50 shades of grey in teabag and tiger's future.

Sooooo do we have an option to turn it off in our user options?? Because we know from reddit that it just becomes an echo chamber.

TBH, its a shit idea.

I admire your restraint. I ****ing blast people all the time.

Eh, reddit's entire interface is based on voting. This will have a pretty minimal impact on your actual experience here.

Give us some time. We will destroy you.

It works for reddit because its reddit. It works because there are millions of users. Here its a bunch of people with a lot of history, and the same couple hundred 'faces' over and over.

Here we are immature enough that its just gonna be a suckfest to see which echo is the loudest.

Shit idea.

You scared? :D

Nah,

I just know from years of being here that many times good posts go against the grain~

It doesn't work for reddit; anything that counters the current accepted narrative of the hive mind gets wiped off the site and seen by maybe a fraction of total users.

Up voted! :thumb:

Post #3 is grey as expected as well so all functions are active and working fine.

Yea thats what im saying. It does work in the way that its made reddit popular, and likely spawned this idea as well~ I suppose here it depends on the vote thresholds and whatever, and you can always uncollapse a post, but its just like... why?

Just seems like an annoyance.

Who knows, that's the experiment. But just to make sure it's clear, our vision is that only a tiny portion of posts are impacted beyond the numbers on the post itself (which basically do nothing other than show you the vote counts).

If more than 1% of posts are being hidden or 5% of posts are being highlighted, we're doing it wrong and will probably consider adjusting the limits.

Hell, I'm enjoying watching my post creep closer to being hidden. ROFL

At least tags where funny~

I catch anybone down votin my post I will look for them in reel live

Downvote SR!

Tags are much better, and funny.

Besides it's a lot of work downvoting every post

I just noticed, once you vote on a post, that's it. No taking it back. I just clicked on one by mistake, and can't change it.