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The “Down-Vote” Leads To A Vicious Circle Of Negative Feedback
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Ian Morbius
Robby Altair Corporation
#1 - 2014-05-18 19:43:37 UTC
"A vicious spiral of increasingly negative behaviour.... ". Surprise!Lol

Data Mining Reveals How The “Down-Vote” Leads To A Vicious Circle Of Negative Feedback
Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#2 - 2014-05-19 05:44:53 UTC
Compared to most threads containing only a link. This one was actually interesting and it did well to confirm what I always suspected.

I'm not going to upvote it though because that would reward you for making threads containing only links with little to no personal input and we can't reward behaviour like that.

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Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-05-19 06:01:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Sibyyl
Downvoting to oblivion is an important tool in preventing s***posting. In reddit, downvoted posts also disappear from the default view, making them less likely to receive attention or feedback which I think your article is saying will cause the s***poster to leave or stop posting.

On the other hand, if you have a large group of people with a "flavor of the week" opinion trend, downvoting to oblivion removes the ability for most people to have a dissenting voice. This encourages throwaways whose dissenting voices are almost completely ignored (as they should be).

Not sure there's a happy medium.

Also, obligatory upvote for you, OP.

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Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2014-05-19 09:53:00 UTC
While I believe there is something to this, I believe the study is flawed. Youtube is an excellent example of a community that functions exceptionally well with a downvoting system. This "vicious spiral of downvoting" is much smaller and more isolated than one might think. On a small scale, downvotes can be much more detrimental, especially as a user will easily be able to compare themself with other users and determine themselves to have received below average ratings. That hurts their ego, and particularly strongly if the person put a lot of effort into making a good post.

But in a large system with too many people for a person to rate themselves against others, a person with a few downvotes will not feel very bad about it. They won't get bothered to have 14 downvotes when several of the people who downvoted them have over a hundred. They remain encouraged to do well. Of course, the biggest encouragement comes from outside the voting system, and from the actual content moderation. But don't take my word for it. Use Youtube as a large-scale example.

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Dorian Tormak
RBON United
#5 - 2014-05-19 15:03:47 UTC
And up-votes lead to a vicious cycle of nut-huggery.

I don't like this article, I feel like it's a bunch of fancy words trying to describe something I already know and didn't need to think about.

Don't care for the angle of the article either.

If you're going to have a "voting" system like this, it has to be with both up-votes and down-votes, that's my opinion, otherwise it's just absolutely pointless. Well, really it's useless no matter what, but if you're going to do it, do it right. The up-vote button is so damn stupid. I pretty much never use it any more because I honestly find it just... reprehensible, especially while we are still without the option to down-vote.

That's just how I feel about this forum though; the little up-vote button is just for all the posters, and posers (and that includes ****-posters and ****-posers) to play patty-cakes with eachother and have a nice little circle-jerk.

What's the point of letting people decide what they like and don't like by using up or down-votes if the end objective is to censor a certain type of post or to end "****-posting"?

Also, Too Long; Didn't Read

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