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hey andrew!

• pg 18y ago
  It seems a shame to me that a couple guys saying hi to one another got downvoted into oblivion. I've noticed a lot of downvoters piling on lately. I'm going to see if I can tweak voting to prevent this.
  • PieSquared 18y ago
    Err... What manner of tweaking would solve that problem? Just curious, since to me it seems to be more of a community issue.
    • pg 18y ago
      One thing I tried (released yesterday) is more aggressive graying out of negative comments, in the hope that people wouldn't be so prone to downvote something they could no longer read. I also increased the threshold for downarrows to appear. Neither of those helped in this case, though. So for now it's back to the drawing board-- or rather, vi. I'll write some code to analyze voting patterns and see if there is some way sw could distinguish mean downvoting from e.g. the downvoting of trolls and spammers.
      • Xichekolas 18y ago
        Have you thought about just putting a floor on downvoting? It seems anything that truly merits a -10 is firmly in 'getting killed by an editor' territory, with possible account deletion, and, if there were a floor, anything that doesn't deserve a -10 would not get modded into oblivion for no reason. Maybe you don't want to change the modding system that much, but I was just wondering if you had any thoughts on the idea?