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?
It could be the way the
Sat, 9 Aug 2008, 12:23 amIt could be the way the site programming works. For those who many not know: the site uses an 'out of the box' free program. This means that many functions, if not most of them, come pre-coded to work a certain way. (Although Grant would have to confirm whether or not he set it up to do it, or whether it just came preinstalled to do it)
... Besides which, there are reasons for voting down, just as there are voting up. I often vote up posts that are helpful or insightful, and when I do vote something down, it's because it's just the opposite.
I think again it comes back to the issue of transparency; we don't know who or why people vote the way they do. At least at Wikipedia, there are tabs which show the history of each article, and the edits (granted, not quite the same thing, but you get my point) are clearly tracked and reasoned out.
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