Who is voting down the posts?
Thu, 7 Aug 2008, 08:45 amjmuzz30 posts in thread
Who is voting down the posts?
Thu, 7 Aug 2008, 08:45 amI've already commented in a particular thread but I'm raising this as a general question - has anyone else noticed recently that there are certain posts that, whilst they may hold unpopular opinions, are not in any other way derrogatory and yet they appear to have been arbitrarily voted down?
Am I jumping at shadows here?
Is there a little self-appointed censorship gang out there?
In my opinion, someone or someones are flaunting the spirit of the website and censoring posts they happen to disagree with.
If you're not a little more careful I will vote up at my discretion that which you've voted down.
Whilst I hate the trolls I believe we should be seen to be democracy in action and my fear is someone is trying the autocratic approach. I have no trouble with voting down posts which villify, mock, or are just plain offensive but what I'm seeing goes beyond that.
It makes me angry.....you wouldn't like me when I'm angry (sorry, couldn't resist the last bit).
Anyone care to 'fess up?
Moderating in moderation
Fri, 8 Aug 2008, 02:39 amThe interesting thing about ranking the posts you read is that very few will get positive rankings, unless they are outstanding. The general tendency is to be apathetic unless you hate something and vote it down. 'Reasonable' posts won't be scored at all.
A lot of people will have their filters set to hide and ignore the rubbish.
So in theory you might think if a post is unfairly given several thumbs down, you can rescue it and restore the balance by giving thumbs up. But if it's given enough thumbs down to be caught by the junk filter, you may not even see it to rescue it.
Cheers,
Craig
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