I’m relatively new to forumbuildr but i can’t help noticing that the voting system sucks.

A lot of people vote randomly or give negative votes simply because they’re angry their idea is on a negative score.

I think the negative vote option should be removed, leaving only the 2 other options:

– vote (positive)

– pbum

What u think?

I don’t think there’s a problem with the up and down voting, it’s the systematic removal at -5. Removing the downvote option would also disable the systematic removal, so why not just disable the removal instead of both downvoting and removal?

Actually that’s a good idea. I was thinking that the limit of downvote’s remain at -5, but it is still retained. Possibly sent to separate area like “reject bin” but you are still allowed to vote on it. Only up and pbum at this stage. If it is voted up if can be thrown back in with the rest of the submissions again (or, maybe it needs a certain amount of votes to be put back in). Complex? Yes. Helpful? I dunno.

Maybe you should do the Vote Up or Pbum and if something remains at 0 lets say, 2 days after submition, it gets removed.

I have problems with the automatic kick at -5, too. I had a bunch of items that got +5 votes (yay chocolates), but then suddenly everything got downvoted to -5 in the space of a day. I know lots of people vote down for the lulz, but this is ridiculous.

what i dislike about the voting system is that the ones that are already popular seem to appear more than the rest when looking through categories that have a lot of entries. i’d prefer something where the ones that appeared for me were actually completely random so that every idea has an equal chance.

demyztikx Posted:

If it gets to -5 there is no saving it from losing to those +180 choices (unless it got -5 right away). So the best I’d think would be to not kick it off at -5 until after a certain period, or if it’s -5 but still got a number of ups.

thats actually a really good suggestion. each submission gets two days to live, and after that it goes away if its -5 or less.

PIMPTASTIC-FROTH Posted:

Well, even then, all the trashy submissions just sit there around and deter people from voting at all…so there’s flaws in a vote/pbum system.

The average number of votes on submissions went from about -3 to 6 since last week, so it looks like the situation is getting better. I guess we just need to give the system some time before making more changes.

Maybe have a limit on the amount of downvotes you’re allowed a week. Let’s say 20. A little more thought will be put into downvoting, and the outright trash will be thrown out still.

I’m very much against limiting votes. For one thing, the scale of things is probably only going to get larger, and even now- only having 20 up and 20 down votes for 260 submissions is a little ridiculous. Then people would -really- get screwed by what people see first, because nobody’s going to read all 260 and then go back to vote on the top/bottom.

The system really isn’t that bad, it’s just some of the people using it. I do think having some kind of ‘grace period’ before a submission can be deleted is a good idea, so that more people can weigh in on something. Sometimes you’re at the mercy of the 5 people that happen to be online, who are all downvoting the entire list.