We've had a voting system for a while now, but we've really noticed that it hasn't been used all that much by the community. We're not exactly sure why that is as we haven't received much feedback either.
Two main reasons by my estimate:
1. In order for voting to work it should be possible to list and sort discussions (not only comments) by vote, or at least it should be possible to impact sorting in "popular" view which is btw. still broken (pagebrowser not working). As it is right now it's pretty useless.
2. It should be coupled with some kind of karma system. Stackoverflow gives a good example of this.
@Todd@Tim@Mark , could you please take care of this? That's extremely annoying to try to go back, or on mobile to click discussion and go back to the portal, and then have to click community again.
Unless they just changed something, "Back to Discussions" (under the Comment box) correctly goes to /discussions and it isn't present on the mobile version at all from what I see.
Todd June 10 : "We've had a voting system for a while now, but we've really noticed that it hasn't been used all that much by the community. We're not exactly sure why that is as we haven't received much feedback either." .... "Got some feedback or feature idea? Talk about it here. I'd love to see people spit balling some extra fun ideas here."
Lincoln June 11 "Sexy. I have theories about why voting wasn't well-received, but suffice to say I think the Q&A structure is much simpler/elegant and more useful."
I have a satisfatory answer:
Voting system is for intangible evaluation, ex. a debate, discussion, opnion, policy etc... No empirical results to form.
Votes evaluates concepts, is for reflection....
Is good for evaluations : news, video, debate ...
Q&A is for objective directions: yes or not, do this or that, this way...
Nobody puts a "opnion" code in your script waiting that works...
Q&A is for objective and efective purposes.
Is good for : programmers, mechanical, engineering etc...
How many lost time we lost reading things that no have ANSWER, nor led anywhere ?
A pratical example :
1- I want that my plugin works .
I want QUICK ANSWER for that, better tool -> Q&A
2- I want know, what type of plugins people waiting or what they think about such directions.
I want evaluate my comunity goals, feelings and needs, proper tool -> Voting system
Thus voting is a EXCELENT and VITAL tool.
And Q&A is the missing leg of body.
Both are GREATS...... if correctly applied
You can add pooling system, but thus are 3 legs hehehehe
For last :
I consider these VITALS tools , it do the web LIVE, people stop being statics to become dynamic, it is a pun ok ?
I actually came to vanillaforums to spam it with my links to my blogs .. came across it using a link builder ... well it has come to my surprise that it is a forum... have been going thru a few threads and I like the content but most of all I like the theme setup especially the one with the comments and how many follows there are
I really think that the voting wasn't being used because it had a weird UI. I don't know how to fix it but it didn't seem integrated into the site. Plus to be honest with you I turned it off on my site because it was ugly.
Comments
1. In order for voting to work it should be possible to list and sort discussions (not only comments) by vote, or at least it should be possible to impact sorting in "popular" view which is btw. still broken (pagebrowser not working). As it is right now it's pretty useless.
2. It should be coupled with some kind of karma system. Stackoverflow gives a good example of this.
Back on topic people...
So, bring it back please!
But the discussions link at the top of the mobile version still goes to /.
Todd June 10 :
"We've had a voting system for a while now, but we've really noticed that it hasn't been used all that much by the community.
We're not exactly sure why that is as we haven't received much feedback either."
....
"Got some feedback or feature idea? Talk about it here.
I'd love to see people spit balling some extra fun ideas here."
Lincoln June 11
"Sexy. I have theories about why voting wasn't well-received, but suffice to say I think the Q&A structure is much simpler/elegant and more useful."
I have a satisfatory answer:
Voting system is for intangible evaluation, ex. a debate, discussion, opnion, policy etc...
No empirical results to form.
Votes evaluates concepts, is for reflection....
Is good for evaluations : news, video, debate ...
Q&A is for objective directions: yes or not, do this or that, this way...
Nobody puts a "opnion" code in your script waiting that works...
Q&A is for objective and efective purposes.
Is good for : programmers, mechanical, engineering etc...
How many lost time we lost reading things that no have ANSWER, nor led anywhere ?
A pratical example :
1- I want that my plugin works .
I want QUICK ANSWER for that, better tool -> Q&A
2- I want know, what type of plugins people waiting or what they think about such directions.
I want evaluate my comunity goals, feelings and needs, proper tool -> Voting system
Thus voting is a EXCELENT and VITAL tool.
And Q&A is the missing leg of body.
Both are GREATS...... if correctly applied
You can add pooling system, but thus are 3 legs hehehehe
For last :
I consider these VITALS tools , it do the web LIVE, people stop being statics to become dynamic, it is a pun ok ?
this is a big problem for us as our forum is a whole day behind in Taiwan.
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