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Move it over to the suggestion forum
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Agreed. However, 1500 would be way too high requirement. IMHO ~50 would be OK. Trolls usually have rep<0. Furthermore, 1500+ limit would block new professional members.
Greetings - Jacek
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Jacek Gajek wrote: Furthermore, 1500+ limit would block new professional members.
It would only block new members from downvoting, not posting. What's wrong with that? Having somebody actively participate in the community before they can criticize sounds fair to me.
Jacek Gajek wrote: Agreed. However, 1500 would be way too high requirement. IMHO ~50 would be OK.
I think it is fair, they can still participate, just not downvote.
Jacek Gajek wrote: Trolls usually have rep<0.
Not true, a sock puppet account starts at 0, and after a day of upvoting everything they see, they can gain 50 points and start downvoting at will without making themselves known.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I like StackOverflow's method of rating content as "useful" vs. "not useful". Simple and IMHO, effective.
/ravi
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So an up / down system, then?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yes. IMHO, any more granularity than "useful" (5) | "neutral" (no vote) | "not useful" (1) is overkill.
/ravi
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Two ways of voting Bacon/Woo/Good vs t.o.f.u/blerg/bad.
The votes are then weighted and shown on a 0-5 scale; easily done in CListCtrl.
I would like to see a way to rescind a vote as well; maybe have a Liquid Nitrogen button.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Finally, some common sense.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Sorry. I won't do it again. 
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Will check in the Urban Dictionary what the heck t.o.f.u. means ... 
Best regards,
Jaime.
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<pre lang="Nagy++">
t.o.f.u. ~= bacon;
</pre>
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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I'd prefer to have only the option to up-vote/recommend articles. The articles quality then could be measured in up-votes / divided by article views. Okay, this would be a rather small value has few readers vote, so it would have to be multiplied with a well-chosen factor.
Giving more options creates a sort teacher/pupil relationship between voters and article writer. However, it is not known in any way that a specific article reader has the knowledge and is able to distinguish between e.g. a good and a great article as this depends very much on his perspective.
Any reader has the option to write his criticism in form of a message - and this is preferable to voting as then the reader eventually adds to the quality of the topic (Even if he says he found a better work on the topic at xyz). Also the voter gives a hint about his level of professionalism and maturity on the topic only when writing a comment.
modified on Monday, July 25, 2011 12:01 PM
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Doc Lobster wrote: I'd prefer to have only the option to up-vote/recommend articles. The articles
quality then could be measured in up-votes/article views. Okay, this would be a
rather small value has few readers vote, so it would have to be multiplied with
a well-chosen factor.
Excellent suggestion! 
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Thanks, Nish 
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For "work" there should be a scale (1-5 works fine). That would include articles, tips and maybe answers to questions. In those cases I can see wanting to vote somewhere in the middle, though I almost never vote 3.
For comments and posts in the lounge, I think a simple up vote and a vote to remove/report to the authorities button would do the trick.
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Voting in the lounge is typically a "1 or 5 with option remove" system anyway, so the question for the lounge would be "do we need a downvote"?
Maybe another survey 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Exactly my thought. I was just about to post a similar message but decided to +5 yours instead!
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Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ronald Reagan are in a boat in the Potomac, when suddenly the boat develops a leak. They have only one life preserver jacket.
Bill says: "Let's do the Democratic thing. Take a vote to see who gets the life preserver." They each write a name on a piece of paper and stuff it in a coffee can. Bush and Reagan get one vote each; Clinton gets six.
Old joke
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Would work even better if they were in boat in the Everglades and George W. Bush was among them. But then they might still be counting 
2b || !2b
W. Shakespeare
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Such an exciting topic... The other day I had a 3 day conversation on Code Project regarding the 'voting matter'.
The voting system is good as is... Unfortunatly you get one or two crackers that downvote every one else out of revenge. I'd say that there should be a system for that instances that pick it up and eliminate it. When making statements that are biased you are bound to step on someones toes and that also leads to a bad vote. Other wise the voting is pretty good regarding pointing out the more correct answer.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Regarding your concern about voting down, you can always report the user and let the chosen ones to deal with it. There's always a reason behind every vote, either up or down-voting.
And by the way, I can't figure out your 5 cens here.
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thx for the advice, will look into it next time.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Pong D. Panda wrote: you can always report the user
how do you identify the user?
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it is always good to give options for Voting
There could be option of
- Poor
- Good
- Better
- Best
- Premium
Rating always..... WELCOME
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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It should be a two state scale:
- Broccoli for bad feeling / bad message...
- Bacon for good message...
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