MySpace Tom Posted:

Yeah, and I also suspect that the other two Barack Obama avatars with great puns didn’t help. (Hey, how come there is only one avatar of a black man? Racists!Log in to see images!)

Back to Escher’s question, though, I wonder if there couldn’t be a separate subforum for getting feedback on submissions, with forced anonymity for all posts there. That would allow submitters to request feedback while the ideas are still fresh, without the risk of klan based voting or the like. Alternatively, it could be a private subforum, where you need to meet some criteria to gain access (such as a minimum forumbuildr score or voting ratio, or pledging to vote fairly, etc.). I think either would be a useful addition to the creative process.

The fact that you did “YES WICCAN” makes you a genius in my book! It’s really unfortunate how such awesome **** gets voted down, but I guess you can’t hunt down each and every user who either doesn’t get the joke or chooses to be a big fat negative douche.

We really do need more African-American avatars up in this **** though Log in to see images!

As for getting feedback…well, I’m not sure how to address that. I was thinking of allowing players to attach “sticky notes” to their posts in order to highlight them and actually explain why it ought to be voted up. Could be annoying to read, or greatly abused.

I think, for the most part, you wouldn’t want to see the kind of criticisms that your downvoters would have to offer. I’m not sure how to handle this. It’s a shame to think so many good posters are quitting Forumbuildr because of this.

It does feel like a lot of male reproductive organs care more about the scoops and e-peen than quality content, and something needs to be done about that.

I think one idea that might improve things would be a limit as to how many downvotes you’re allowed to give out within a certain period of time, or require a certain minimum ratio of up/down votes. Perhaps even make your profile show how many up and down votes you’ve given so people who downvote everything are exposed, so to speak. I dunno though, I can’t help but think the ideas I’m tossing out of my bum would be just as open to exploitation as the current system.

Maybe just enforce a certain limit to how many votes you can make in a minute so people have to actually mull over each idea. Would cut down on subtle jokes being immediately pbumed over only for people to get the joke right after clicking down. That seems logical.

Jalapeno Bootyhole Posted:

I think, for the most part, you wouldn’t want to see the kind of criticisms that your downvoters would have to offer. I’m not sure how to handle this. It’s a shame to think so many good posters are quitting Forumbuildr because of this.

I don’t know how other people feel, but I’m willing to read through fifty “u sux my male reproductive organ” or “not funny” messages in order to get to one or two “A little too much like forums we already have” or “Not enough random word types”. Also, I expect that most people who are just downvoting out of revenge/preventing scoops/lulz aren’t going to bother taking the time to enter that information.

1338h4x Posted:

I think one idea that might improve things would be to require a certain minimum ratio of up/down votes.

What about when 95% of the enemy submissions suck, like this week?

Perhaps even make your profile show how many up and down votes you’ve given so people who downvote everything are exposed, so to speak.

It does. Even on non-public profiles.

Maybe just enforce a certain limit to how many votes you can make in a minute so people have to actually mull over each idea. Would cut down on subtle jokes being immediately pbumed over only for people to get the joke right after clicking down. That seems logical.

I’d be a fan of that, but when you’re seeing most of these in play it’s just as a real quick look. I really like the puns and subtle jokes (Skully), but if it’s so subtle that I don’t get it without some real consideration, I don’t know if it belongs in here.

Didn’t read the whole thread, but has anyone suggested a limited number of votes per day? I.E., you can ‘pbum’ as often as you like, but you can upvote or downvote a max of ten times per day. That way more of us would carefully choose which submissions warrant a positive or negative push, and those jerkwads doing it just for ‘lulz’ have a daily limit.