I think that there should be a function to up-vote forum posts. Some times a good point is brought up in a topic, but some people just ignore it. Because the post is good, the comment would be up-voted, and would be more noticed.
Also a good substitution to quote someone and just say "I agree".
Yea, we really try to cut back on those. When it gets to too many, it just looks messy, and you can't see any of the more active threads. I think that if it were up to up-voting, many more would be sticked. Leaving up to moderators to choose what is sticked helps keep it impartial and limited.
I was at a forum where they had 2 different types of stickies. The rules and etc. that always stay at the top and other info and good threads under it, like a different sticky section.
You know that can't happen without punishment Graham... same IP addresses. But the real matter is, what would be the other half of the bargain when we do vote up a post? Just to show that someone's got a point in a conversation? If it's going to be something like how merits are found, we could easily camouflage it by bolding our text. It could just be the simple matter that a person proved a good point in a debate... Or the person could get votes for giving good advice or helping someone out when they needed it. And when they get the votes, a number shows up next to the vote-up button. When you already voted up that comment, like how a review is voted in game comments, a happy face is replaced, with the total number of votes next to it. It doesn't necessarily need to have incentives for voting, it can just be to show someone how good of a post someone has typed out.
You know that can't happen without punishment Graham... same IP addresses.
The think is mods and admins don't really keep track of the IP adresses.
@graham
What's great about this suggestion is that it can be compared to something that is already happening, no one wastes their time up-voting their own comments for merits, so no-one would even think to waste their time on forum posting, which doesn't even give you 25 points! Sorry for long run-on sentences.
I kind of like the idea of "numbers" being posted. Sort of like the youtube comments. Of course, I do see a lot of people voting everythign down or up just because they want to. So I think there should be a little load time before it counts as a vote up/down.
I thought we took out the "vote down" thingy... If the guys don't like it, they can just leave it alone; no need hassling a comment that others might like instead. That way, it shows only the people that like the comments, instead of + votes and - votes struggling in a tug-of-war fight. Besides, we won't know the total number of people voted, only the overall score of the comment. Best if we leave the "vote down" option alone.
Some comments are plain stupid and would deserve being voted down. Not all stupid comments are flaggable. = /
Then they simply don't get up-voted. If you down0vote it would be kind of harsh especially when they have no idea why their post was down-voted because they didn't think it was stupid.
