Postings on this site contain two radio buttons side-by-side. The symbol "++" is equidistant between the two, with the symbol "--" to the right of the rightmost radio button. To vote to upgrade or downgrade a post's "reputation" a user selects one or the other and then presses the vote button.
This layout constitutes a butterfly ballot similar to the one that the genius Therese LePore designed for the voters of Palm Beach. The "++" sign is equidistant between the two radio buttons; if one punches the hole immediately to the right of the "++" sign one has actually voted to downgrade not upgrade.
I noticed that I was downgrading posts that I actually liked this morning. Shades of Democrats voting for Patrick Buchanan!
Let's get rid of butterfly ballots everywhere, starting right here on perlmonks.org.
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|