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Re: Looking for "random upvote" script

by OfficeLinebacker (Chaplain)
on Dec 20, 2006 at 13:44 UTC ( [id://590909]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Looking for "random upvote" script

Hi.

demerphq, glad you found my sig thought provoking. I loved LEGO blocks as a kid. I love computer programming and problem solving in general now.

tye, you mentioned that "For the, unfortunately too common, "fits" of attack downvoting, there is a plan for dealing with that passively that I think covers it well enough. I apologize for not implementing it yet, however." That reminds me of the voting system of another site I go to called "karma." The way that works is that you can't give karma (negative or positive) twice to the same person without giving it to something like 19 other people first (I think they've tweaked that number several times). If you try to give someone karma "too often," it says "you have to spread it around first." This seems like a good idea at first but then you get these loose cabals forming; all you need is 20 people who are common posters and "karma whores." And they just have karma-love-fests with each other. The problem there was with people inflating each others' totals with positive, not too much negativity. One thing that's different about here is that the posts have to be informational and at least of some value--you can't post single word "bump" or "in" nodes or they'll get reaped (probably after being downvoted several times). Is that the passive system you had in mind? Still not sure if it would work here; however, PM's members definitely seem more businesslike than on the abovementioned site.


I like computer programming because it's like Legos for the mind.

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Re^2: Looking for "random upvote" script
by ysth (Canon) on Dec 25, 2006 at 01:07 UTC

      Aha! I wasn't even a member when that node was posted, and it's an interesting concept. I couldn't help but respond. I think discounting "late" DOWNvotes is a good idea, as a) presumably the author has learned his lesson (assuming there are already several other downvotes), and b) I gather some spiteful monks search for past nodes created by an author they personally dislike just to downvote them.

      However, I don't feel that late UPvotes should necessarily be discounted--nodes with a lasting positive impact are part of what make this site great. We're encouraged to use the super search. If a great node comes up as a result of a search that really addresses an issue well (for example a particularly well explained Q&A entry), I don't think the resulting upvote should be "discounted" simply because it came a certain number of weeks after the node was created.

      Thanks for the link, ysth.

      I like computer programming because it's like Legos for the mind.

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