Comment 58704

By improvethehammer (registered) | Posted January 29, 2011 at 14:02:19 in reply to Comment 58686

How did this post get 10 votes?

Everyone please re-read the voting system

Now ask the questions:

  • Did this post contribute meaningfully to the conversation?
  • Was this researched? (Perhaps it was well-argued)
  • Was it needlessly inflammatory, seeking to provoke an emotional reaction from others?

IMHO it was off-topic. It also did an ad-hominem attack on another member of the board ("You're lazy")


begin rant

Guys, let's please, please, please, please use the voting system effectively.

Do me a favour. Sometime this week -- up vote a comment that you personally disagree with, but is well researched, and adds value to the debate. And sometime this week, down vote a comment that you personally agree with, but that uses inflammatory language, or is rehashing an opinion said 1000 times before without any facts to back it up.

I apologize for picking on this post in particular. But I've seen countless examples where one person says no more than "I think position A" and the next post says "I disagree with position A" and one gets 10 upvotes, the other gets 10 downvotes. And these are right after each other.

ends rant


Comment edited by improvethehammer on 2011-01-29 14:05:52

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