quote Redemption

quote Gothic Girl

I agree with kik36 ... Putting a limit on thumbs-up/thumbs-down might keep people mindful of what they are really rating.

What kinds of limits would people suggest?

quote Smoke N a Pancake

quote Final Blade

_{Smoke Yea it would be cause tbh it proves how scared you are just thumbing down a post without replying back which was the case majority of the time, which fits into the abusing part when posts of good quality shouldn't have been thumbed down.}

That might be the single most ridiculous quote I've seen in this thread. Are you suggesting that I just go around thumbing people down for shits and giggles? Hell no, and if I disagree with something and feel the need to respond I do, which is pretty clear if you went and actually saw my Gamegrep comments.

quote Smoke N a Pancake

Because it was so terrible for people to thumb someone down instead of causing a whole scene by just calling them an idiot, right?

quote Redemption

quote Gothic Girl

I agree with kik36 ... Putting a limit on thumbs-up/thumbs-down might keep people mindful of what they are really rating.

What kinds of limits would people suggest? If we had a limit system I wonder if we should limit how many thumbs a person can issue per 24hrs and how many of those thumbs can be used in a single thread. If we can nail down some specifics we could implement them and restore thumbs down with the result of it hopefully being abused less frequently.

Probably we can do the following in a relatively short time:

1. show a list of thumbers, and what they thumbed
2. limit the number of thumbs you can issue per day (but how do we determine how many you can issue?)
3. limit thumbing to participants of a story and/or participants on GameGrep.

If we can determine the actual limits on #2 and #3 then we can start this ball really rolling.


!!Another System Altogether I still feel like we should replace thumbs altogether with a single word descriptor that people can rate.

Eg:

• Funny
• Informative
• Interesting

Then the number of people who tag the comment with each of those tags would increase its total score, to a total of +5, along with the one word descripting.

eg Funny +3

I consider this system a "Recommendation" system rather than a rating system, you are recommending others that that a comment is worth checking out and why.

This is pretty much what Slashdot does, and I was intending on adding it as a feature for forum thread recommendations. In the forum system, you would then be able to see what threads are "Recommended" that day, even perhaps by friends.

However, if a simple thumbs limit set of rules could be suggested we could implement that first and relatively quickly.

quote HawkMan

boney? wow let me guess, you're a fat chick whose jealous because she has a hotter bod then you. typical.


jealousy isn't a good color on you.

quote HawkMan

you're obviously homosexual. Nothing wrong that.

quote HawkMan

the fact that you mentioned Angelina JOlie as a women with a beautiful bod,when in reality shes nothing but skelator with a vagina and human face, over a woman with a natural curved figure and a fit body, pretty much throws you're dumbass opinion out the window.

Now march to the restroom and stick your finger down your throat and maybe just maybe you and Jolie can be best friends.

quote HawkMan

Great another fatty to the rescue. you guys are like walruses on a beach always hanging out in packs.

go massage those cankles of yours,sweetcheeks.

quote Moonrise

If you're going to have "descriptions", such as "funny", "informative", and "interesting" then there had damn well better be categories like "annoying", "ridiculous", and "completely wrong".

The world isn't so convenient as to allow people to simply run around giving each other compliments left and right, which is why there should really be a thumbs down system in the first place. When people stay stupid shit, they should be "thumbed down" or at least it should be known that everyone else frowns upon their comment.

quote Gothic Girl

This is just a suggestion, but maybe Gamegrep could have a "rating" system similar to Joystiq's ...



Whenever a comment gets "thumbed up" it goes up half a heart, and when it gets "thumbed down" it goes down half a heart.

So there's no negative numbers like Gamegrep's thumbs-down system, but the best comments will have three hearts which tells people they are worth reading, while the worst ones will have no hearts and show people that it's not really worth reading.

It's a system that isn't quite as "in your face" as being thumbed-down into the negatives.

quote Akira_EX

Actually, it's not as simple as one thumb up/down = one half a heart. I think it gradually grows depending on the count, so it isnt as simple as three up = full.

quote Gothic Girl

quote Akira_EX

Actually, it's not as simple as one thumb up/down = one half a heart. I think it gradually grows depending on the count, so it isnt as simple as three up = full.

Well it should be that simple >_>

quote Moonrise

Okay so where exactly has it been proven that the thumbs down system is a bad thing? I also ask why your quoted messages are relevant in any way to this discussion. A report system would be fine, but there's no reason to get rid of the thumbs down feature as a result.

If you're going to have "descriptions", such as "funny", "informative", and "interesting" then there had damn well better be categories like "annoying", "ridiculous", and "completely wrong".

The world isn't so convenient as to allow people to simply run around giving each other compliments left and right, which is why there should really be a thumbs down system in the first place. When people stay stupid shit, they should be "thumbed down" or at least it should be known that everyone else frowns upon their comment. Really, the existence of the thumbs down system did absolutely nothing to propagate controversy and its removal is completely unnecessary from that front. Hell, if you go around now it's probably more likely that you'll see people in long-winded arguments over nothing because instead of a group of people simply "thumbing down" a comment and letting it be, they all have to physically tell the person how much of an idiot they are which does nothing more than prompt even more ridiculous responses.

It's funny that you of all people would say that the people that thumb down without commenting are "afraid" of anything. Really, that's the best way to do things because it prevents you from making even more ridiculous comments in response to anything they had to say to you. It's not being "afraid" of anything, it's simply being smart by not adding fuel to the fire. Thumbing down a ridiculous comment without responding is really the best possible thing to do. A person can make a comment whining about how they've been thumbed down, but if people don't bother to reply to him/her then it's just going to end there without any real backlash from the person involved and anyone else.

quote Deathsythe

the whole purpose of social news sites is so they can basically "govern themselves" without much moderation. Ultimately - GameGrep should (god willing) be headed to a point where the moderators and approvers aren't even necessary anymore. Users can already help approve articles. If we put in a "bury" feature of sorts- users can help remove non-worthy articles from the main pages. Users can report duplicates, spam and all that nonsense.

quote Akira_EX

Also, regarding Hawkman, how come no one alerted any of us moderators? I eventually dealt with him earlier today, but only after I came across it while browsing.