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Negative Voting: I Am Ann Smarty and I'm a Thumboholic

Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 4:29 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 487 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seosmarty.com)
Category: Other Social Media

It’s not that I am against disapproval or criticism in general - no, I am not going to put the necessity of negative voting under question - my main point that negative voting should make sense.

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from annie7 487 days ago #

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Wow, Maki, how do you manage to be the first everywhere? Thank you for the submission - I am honored!

from JamesDuthie 486 days ago #

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The thumbs down is unfortunately a necessary evil to control abuse of our favourite social media sites. Personally I barely ever use it unless I'm ridiculously opposed to the article (ie. violence, racism etc). If I don't like an article I simply won't vote.

From an author's perspective, I prefer the mandatory comment option. In my view a negative vote questions the quality and credibility of an article (although I understand not everyone sees it that way). So if someone is questioning the quality of my work I'd like to know why. Who knows... it might open my mind and a healthy discussion/debate.

Without a comment we can't assess whether the criticism is valid.

from onreact 486 days ago #

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I think the Mixx "vote down" feature works quite well as people are not ANONYMOUS. Here on Sphinn the solution is OK too. On SU I'm not sure. Digg is really broken due to the "bury feature" there.