BatmanTry writing your title without capitals except for the start.
Then tell us "how" and "why" downvotes are the disease killing our community.
Then structure your sentences and ideas better -- don't put LARGE CAPITALS IN RANDOM PLACES; you don't need to put 3 empty lines for every small sentence.
Give us evidence-- "downvotes are used by elitists", "trolls use these to downvote quality posts", "Downvotes don't actually show anything bad about the post unless its terrible, at which point its obvious-- posts can be extremely good but someone doesn't like it anyway"
Essentially; add more evidence, reasoning, structure your posts better then your posts would be high-quality and people will not only read what you have to say, they might even take your side of the argument and push for a change.
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DOWNVOTES ARE STILL THE DISEASE KILLING OUR COMMUNITY
Eliminate Downvotes.
Better yet!!!!!!!!!!!
turn all downvotes into upvotes starting immediately!
then the forums will be the game, and EVERYBODY WINS!
Also side note: when i lose a game i want to be given 1 krow as a consultation prize |
The thought most people get while reading this is; This guy doesn't want downvotes because he gets them a lot despite the fact his posts are not high quality
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Try this;
Downvotes are a disease which harms our community which in turn causes lots of people to turn away from Zero-K
I see that due to the ability to liberally use downvotes, people can choose to downvote posts with quality content "for the memes" or simply because they dislike that person on the forums.
The freedom to use downvotes can also be harnessed by trolls by simply downvoting someone's post for absolutely no reason.
Downvotes also don't serve any useful purpose; generally a downvote is used only because that particular person dislikes someone's post, meaning that downvotes are only "surface deep" -- in other words; its only an opinion of a person and doesn't give any meaningful information about that post; A -1 on the bottom right hand corner doesn't tell anyone if the post has faulty logic, has insufficient information, has incorrect information, or what they are suggesting is harmful to the community. All it tells us is that someone doesn't like the post.
Because of this; I think downvotes should be removed to stop "trolls" or "salty people" from downvoting a person's post without any actual reason besides "For the memes" and "I don't like this guy because he beat me in Zero-K". While I see that downvotes can be used constructively by disagreeing with someone, which can lead to helpful and meaningful discussions, oftentimes that "meaningful and helpful" discussion only happens when the downvotee writes a counterargument to the person he downvoted. Because this is exceedingly rare; it would be better to simply remove the negative influence within the Zero-K forum as it only creates division between members of our community and rarely leads to meaningful discussion.
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While not my very best argument, and certainly not my best format, this post allows people to have a meaningful discussion by either adding something onto it, or attacking the points like "rarely leads to meaningful discussion" by throwing a counter -- it does lead to meaningful discussion most of the time, with the downvotee replying in a coherent paragraph or showing that the "-1" sign actually does give us more data than "I don't like this post and thus I press the downvote button"
I took the time to reply in detail mostly because no one else seems to; if you're just trolling, then I've only lost 15 minutes and perhaps it might even show someone how to write a decent post. On the other hand; if you are serious, then hopefully this post will show you how to write a decent post which makes meaningful discussions within the community, and then you might be able to have a consensus on removing/adding something you want into Zero-K EDIT; YES I KNOW HIS POST IS 13 DAYS AGO. I wrote this in case he decides to write another post (which I think is highly likely)-- Also, I can't honestly stand mocking replies without showing what he is doing wrong -- I think anything which stops helpful and meaningful discussion within the Zero-K community needs to be addressed (addressed, not "stopped" or "punished"even though that seems to be the connotation the word carries)
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I think if you genuinely care about a downvote on your post that you really need a sense of perspective on life. Its a mechanic for showing agreement or disagreement with the content or tone of a post, nothing more |
Except it doesn't actually show you what you disgree/agree with on his post-- it just shows that you disagree, no one knows whether its just part of the post or whether its the whole post, unless the downvotee responds with a counterargument, which is probably more helpful.
Also --
trolling people or downvoting simply because he feels like it generally doesn't help; imagine a campaign rally where someone just boos because he/she has a loud voice...
