Personally i think showing who voted up or down is quite healthy. Would other members allow one person to be bullied? I doubt that very much. It might take a while to settle, but worth a try.
Stand up for your convictions I say. I’m happy to upvote and downvote as I see fit. I’m not going to be dragged into some of the trash that goes on here sometimes though but I am happy to vote to show my displeasure and couldn’t care less who knows! If people don’t like that and start to give me abuse I have the choice to respond or ignore (or complain / run crying to the mods boo hoo).
I don’t mind it as a go-forward option. I agree with bletch that the historical stuff is probably too far, and to an extent, already catered for. The new member profile page shows votes cast and votes received totals.
As I suggested on another thread, I would like to see a downvote summary page to show posters the effect of their downvotes.
If we could all go to a page to see a summary of the last month’s downvotes it would a) aid me in attempting to steer content and b) show posters that are attracting downvotes the scale of the disapproval.
At the moment getting a handle on the number of downvotes is all but impossible as they are scattered hither and yon.
I like the new member’s page but I think we also need a summary page that shows all downvotes.
I don’t really know what will happen if we start showing downvotes. I’m not well enough informed. Things aren’t too bad now so I think it’s sensible to let things remain as they are. It would be foolish to vote for a leap into the unknown where that unknown could be awful and devastating for the forum.
Just had a look and i have downvoted 6 times. Could you make it possible to click on this and show the comments? As i was surprised to see 6. Don’t remember any of them. Fat fingers, shit memory or pissed voting?
I’m proud of my downvotes! I’ve got loads! Mostly from Tokyo probably. If I didn’t get any I’d worry I was a Chapel Kate. I don’t understand why they get taken so seriously. They are useful to gauge if you’ve maybe pushed things a bit too far. Although I’m waaaay more fearful of a The Cholula Kid disapproving message than a downvote (I like TCK, but he’s scary!)
I don’t really mind if they anonymous or not, I always own up when I give one. Though I did think it strange at the beginning that they would be anonymous when upvoting isn’t.
you missed, during your absence, a pap confession that he made them anonymous at the beginning because he was adding down votes to posts so he could influence the content and direction of the forum
I have voted yes. Transparency leads to honesty. I know when I have been a prize cunt and deserve them… but there are also some very odd ones and it would be helpful to be able to ask what it was for and get a reply- think it would actually remove some of the misunderstandings and unnecessary anger…, if you share up votes then why not down? I have down voted quite a bit and it is the easy option - so by making it usable it will make me either think twice or offer a more detailed explanation as to why it was deserving of one.
PS please please can someone nominate Chapelkate as my next seasons Charity name swap… I can down vote every time one of you fuckers uses the the ‘c word’