Thumbs Voting
Okay before i start and get this blog deleted, i am posting the rules i seen when i decided to post this blog
"Unity Blog is the place to discuss problems, ideas, suggestions related to BoonEx products and the BoonEx company"
I'm getting upset at those who vote just to make the poster mad. I have noticed that all of sammies posts have been getting thumbs down and those who are standing by her also (like me). I am not sure who is doing this, but don't you think this is a bit childish? I have read her posts and didn't see any reason for this negative attack. It is time for all the children on this site to go home! Stop voting just to slam someones blog. Vote because you agree or disagree with the post.
Let's leave all that high school crap for MYSpace and FaceBook, and let Boonex grow in strength not hatred! Negative energy breeds negative actions and this is NOT what Dolphin is about. So if you feel the urge to follow posters and thumbs down them, just step back from your pc and turn on cartoons like all children should do. After all i thought we were all ADULTS around here? Am I wrong?
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Unoboonex, is this how members of your staff are to act?
Juker did i do anything to you to get this response, or is it because of what i wrote? Please explain the reason behind your negative vote. I watched you go to my blog juker and then the rating went from 2 thumbs up to 1 after you read my post.
Maybe we should have a box see more
( let the sleeping dogs rest ) :) !
I propose that 'positive' and 'negative' be replaced with emotions. Instead of positive, we use a cute little smiley face to click on. Then instead of a harsh word like 'negative', we have a cute little emotion with it's tongue sticking out that we click on. A single emotion would be placed beside the author's name which would be either a smiley face, or an emotion with it's tongue sticking out toward the author's name. see more
Tyke, maybe she posted and has had pm's from see more
"Let's leave all that high school crap for MYSpace and FaceBook" and so on, these phrases are enough to get peoples backs up and there are many ways to get a valid point across without being so aggressive. This site doesnt need this right now in my opinion, it just breeds more negativity see more
no-one mentioned women being abused huh?
"I'm getting upset at those who vote just to make the poster mad. I have noticed that all of sammies posts have been getting thumbs down and those who are standing by her also (like me)."
i am a woman. that is the targetted. thats what she was posting about. but ok we get it, just 2nd class citizens here, because the male ego and testosrone in this place treats us like we belong in the kitchen.
you attacked her post because it see more
Even if it's something as simple as, "Thank you, very useful post."
A drop-down, even, with options to choose from:
Vote +1: Excellent Post!
Vote +1: Very Useful!
Vote -1: I disagree.
Vote -1: Drama!
Of course, those are just off the top of my head, I'm sure others could do better.
That said, I am not sure that negative voting is a good thing. Why give see more
Boonex trying to code themselves out of the responsibility of care to the community.
sorry but someone at Boonex needs their head rewired, there is a short there somewhere, can call that idea a bright spark
unfortunately <<< i corrected your spelling mistake ;)
The biggest problem is that everyone needs to consider the context of the vote - In the case of blogs - the voting is really referring to opinions - of which everyone has their own - If your opinion is little left field or perhaps expressed in a strong or unusual manner it is bound to stir emotions - voting is likely to be extreme. A negative vote doesn't mean a bad post - it simply means that the voter disagrees with see more
It is a good measure of value - whether of popular opinion - or of good help.
LightWolf was a victim of abuse here by a former Moderator who stole $10,000+ from the members of this community. so when you new people attack her post because she used words you didnt like.
just think about the people who know whats gone on before you joined this place
there is a lot more victims than most of you new people know about.
\@/ "there are a lot more victims"
Regards,
DosDawg
is that because you were informed you are ganging up on yet another female victim of past abuse here? i bet that really makes you guys feel powerful
like a pack of wolves huh?
there are more female victims, be very careful who you attack again. then you wont feel like you do now, ashamed of yourselfs.
yes the people who have been here longest know a lot more than most who jumped on the bandwagon to attack people
you think we could kill the use of the verbiage "attack", "victims" and "abuse"? in all honesty other than self gratification, what positive are we creating by associating these words with boonex and the blogs?
Regards,
DosDawg
I think getting negative votes when they do not pertain to the subject, sends the wrong messages to new members that come here. I have seen negative votes on good people that do help and can help newbies with their problems, but when they see negative votes for that person, they may not ask them for help and this would be a shame for the newbie and for dolphin as well.
So you see it really DOES matter see more
I think that all LightWolf is asking here, is to just put an end to drive by negs. It is one thing to present an opposing viewpoint, but to go around mindlessly slapping a neg on every post in sight, without ever taking the time to present even the slightest argument, is completely useless. I am guilty myself of an occassional driveby, especially on spam posts, but I have never see more
i for one have voted negative on some posts, because i didnt believe in what they were saying, and i would post that i disagreed and post my neg vote. then there were other times, that i would post and stay neutral, but voice my opinion, and that is exactly what it was in most cases, see more
if you can read that more clearly, you will see exactly what is going on there. text=keywords, keywords=association?
enough said!
Regards,
DosDawg
I wrote about this a couple of months ago here:
http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Unity_Community_Suggestion_Just_a_Random_Thought
Some good comments there too. Take what you can from it.
I'm fine with the neg votes but would like to know why sometimes. For example, a few of my tutorials got neg votes along with my book and it got me wondering why. No big deal I figure. Everyone is allowed their own opinion.
If you guys go to wordpress and continue from the authour who wrote the blog ..
no where is there a voting system on any blog that I have come across, this is the reason why Dolphin Blog *VOTING* karma needs to be removed...
It just causes dramma and like someone said if Newbies see Negative on some of our Blogs and it was actually helpful then they will not ask the questions since we have 20 Negative votes agaisnt us and people will be scared to even comment see more
Voting plugins are very common on Wordpress blogs. The Wordpress Vote-it-up plugin has over 15,000 downloads.
but do not forget how many people are actually using wordpress lets say over 1 million at any given time, compared to 15,000 thousand.
Also the blogs that I have seen from wordpress dont have this mod installed so its a choice of oneself, whether to install the plugin or not.
Also at this point in time of the developement of dolphin 7 Andrey did mention there will be a huge change to the blog system, so lets wait and see what Dolphin 7 has see more
although i disagree with you in regards to removing the voting system, because if you go and take a look there is a point system on the forums as well, unless i am just crazy, and that is one of the considerations boonex used when they were issuing licenses the other week. so voting is important, both positive and negative, the problem is that the anonymous votes blow. if you are not doing a reply or writing a post, then see more
The only good karma I can see working out, is for example in the forums, someone has a question and you answer it to best of your knowledge the best thing can be is to have a Thank you and it posts the thank you see more
users can post to any blog(s) and with that post, they are entitled to one vote per username. how do you curtail a member from creating multi-accounts, well i have thought about this as well. boonex could if they wanted to implement a pruner cron, if the members username, would be created and no domain name registered to the license number, free or otherwise, see more