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.