I really like the up/down vote system, particularly the down votes. As someone that grew up reading this site through middle school, high school, and is now finishing college I was always turned off by the insane far right banter unavoidably spewed here. In high school I think we all felt this site was just a cesspool because of insistent conservative propaganda that the sites format helped to attract by creating a place for those to speak who were only interested in shouting. I think this update finally gives a balance to some of us with quieter voices, uninterested in arguing, who can express our opinion without having to waste our time debating lunacy. I'm excited by the update, and for younger users who can now engage with one another here, allowing the site to actually become a place that can help foster a creative and healthy culture instead of portraying the world to be this bleek and lost confine in every conversation about the appropriate miles to run per week.
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I should mention social experiments have shown this approval/disapproval system to be surprisingly successful in curbing radical, unproductive behavior in group environments.
It can also be painful. For some, it may be the first time they find out what the vast or 'silent' majority actually think of them.
This sub used to be manipulated by whoever was the loudest or possessed the most anonymous handles. That's no longer the case and I couldn't be happier for it.
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22twos wrote:
I should mention social experiments have shown this approval/disapproval system to be surprisingly successful in curbing radical, unproductive behavior in group environments.
It can also be painful. For some, it may be the first time they find out what the vast or 'silent' majority actually think of them.
This sub used to be manipulated by whoever was the loudest or possessed the most anonymous handles. That's no longer the case and I couldn't be happier for it.
You mean crystalizing the dominant narrative in to collective group think?
There are bots at work here. Looking at the upvotes and downvotes of posts, you would assume that the average reader here was a BLM anarchist rather than a white, middle-aged conservative leaning hobby jogger (and you lefties have been complaining for the last 20 years that the average reader here was such a demographic).
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I think is dumb to show the net up/down vote. Show both gross up and gross down votes to give a fairer indication of both supportive and triggered posters.
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How quickly the novelty wears off.
The enthusiasm for this feature didn't last long. On page 1 the sum of the absolute values of the deltas is 751. By page 4 it has fallen to 162, of which 76 were achieved by two tongue-in-cheek posts by Covette. If he hadn't posted the total would probably be below 100. This page is currently at 24, or less than two votes per post.
Yes I know the value is the delta, not the total votes, but either a) The up votes and down votes are now almost equal as suddenly posters are of a balanced mind regarding the posts. Or b) A lot less people are clicking the buttons.
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Or C) There is a group of readers who welcome all viewpoints and will up vote any post that is getting a lot of down votes
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Heartless wrote:
How can every response on this thread except one have negative “Likes”? They’re all different opinions! LOL
We are dealing with a lot of mentally unstable people on this site. Give me some downvotes!
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Upvote/downvote will fundamentally change Letsrun.com
It probably won't fundamentally change LetsRun, but we can always hope.
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Block Party wrote:
you just can't help yourself posting about your weird racial fetish can you? Black dildos, rape is like eating cakes,.... you are truly full of gems aren't ya?Why does LRC allow this piece of trash to still post?
You and your other handles appear to be the ones obsessed with these topics. Funny how you never complained when trolls accused of wanting to have sex with Jakob (*), or leaving rape threats against me in the middle of the night here that the mods were always slow to remove. You're literally coming to the defence of a white British guy who not only is known for pretending to be a Kenyan male here, but has a Twitter account in which he pretends to be 'Cleopatra', a 'big bad black mamma'.
I have already stated my ideas about the Upvote/Downvotes.
Whatever, LRC administration decide about this subject I will accept it.
However, I will not be using this system as I have never used it in any other site.
(*) They are coming...
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