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How about the following: whenever a user down votes a comment, a popup comes up describing the community rules for downvotes (e.g. "don't down vote just because
by silvajoao 17y ago
How about the following: whenever a user down votes a comment, a popup comes up describing the community rules for downvotes (e.g. "don't down vote just because you disagree", etc). After having been shown this box a couple of times it could be disabled for that user so that is isn't too annoying. New users would thus "learn" the rules as they use the site.
- pvg 17y agoA pop-up is not going to fix the tremendous discrepancy between submission votes and comment votes. It's mostly a matter of 'how about acknowledging this was a poor idea'
- TomOfTTB 17y agoDo you really think the problem is lack of understanding? I mean, a reputation system is a pretty easy concept and I can't imagine there are people out there who just don't know what a Karma system is. Which is the problem. If you understand what a karma system is than you understand you're doing damage to a person's actual reputation by down voting them. So the obvious conclusion for anyone who understands the concept of karma points is that down voting is an act designed to cause harm to the person not to express disagreement with the idea. I can't imagine a person who doesn't have at least a subconscious understanding of such an obvious result so I don't think a notice when someone down votes would change anything