Up/Down Voting - yes or no?

[Klaus]

Some people asked for something like it, so I thought I'd enable it just such that everyone can play with it.

I have no particular opinion on the matter. Please tell me whether we should keep it or drop it.

[jon-nyc]

I don’t really care but downvoting seems weasely. If you disagree with a post, saw why.

[mark]

Safari onMac is not showing the radio buttons for the poll.

I'm using the dark theme if that matters.

[mark]

got it t work.

Switched Skin to Cosmo then back to darkly.

[89th]

Does the up or down vote actually change anything (like the order of replies?)

[jon-nyc]

You can choose a view where it does but I can’t imagine anyone doing that.

[George K]

@mark said in Up/Down Voting - yes or no?:

Safari onMac is not showing the radio buttons for the poll.

I'm using the dark theme if that matters.

Did for me....and I'm in Darkly skin (not theme).

[Klaus]

@jon-nyc
There is the option to disable down-voting, and there is the option to make all votes public, including down-votes.

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in Up/Down Voting - yes or no?:

I don’t really care but downvoting seems weasely. If you disagree with a post, saw why.

That's rather the whole point of the forum, isn't it?

[Copper]

I like the idea of making all votes public

I assume we could still have secret ballots for Polls

[Mik]

I'd just prefer that we not have them, but if we must they should be public. It's a statement. It's just another column on the thread list and more useless noise.

[Jolly]

I vote no.

[Rich]

I like the idea of upvoting—I think it can help clear a thread of numerous +1’s, or lol’s when the joke happened days earlier.

Downvoting seems lame.

Either way, make it public.

I tend to be someone that gets annoyed every time the forum changes, if only because I hate getting used to new ways of doing things.

Not so this time around—this ones a keeper.

[Mik]

I wonder how many longstanding forums have gone through the platform changes we have.

[taiwan_girl]

I voted no also. As someone said in another forum post, the voting column is distracting (at least to me). I would be happy to get rid of it.

[Copper]

Brevity is important here

[brenda]

I was willing to try it, but now I'm not impressed with what it offers. The negative votes add nothing to the discussion. The positives can be handled other ways, too. Doesn't seem to fit in with the use of this forum.

[89th]

As a “yes” voter, I concede it’s kinda nice to be able to +1 (like button) something but may not have much juice to the squeeze and it begins to clutter up an otherwise very clean interface. Unless the sentiment changes, might as well disable it!

[Klaus]

OK, the general sentiment seems to be to disable it. It's gone.

[Loki]

I still see the votes column