If you can't downvote away people's karma, how do you make people who suck go away?
I lost all my points (karma).
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Re: I lost all my points (karma).
#22If you can't downvote away people's karma, how do you make people who suck go away?
You should downmod the comments, not the person.
What's happening here is that troll decides he doesn't like startupgeek, so troll goes to the threads page for startupgeek and downmods every single comment on there.
If you think someone sucks, then downmod the sucky thing they said. Not all the non-sucky things.
Re: I lost all my points (karma).
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
~Flashback to 2002~ "Hey Paul, I keep getting all these junk email messages and they're filling up my inbox!" "You're right. Someone went on an emailing spree. Now I'm going to have to write some software to prevent this kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do..." http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
It won't be anywhere near as complicated. All I have to do is not display down arrows on comments over a day old.
A week might be more fair.
Re: I lost all my points (karma).
#24If you can't downvote away people's karma, how do you make people who suck go away?
You should downmod the comments, not the person. What's happening here is that troll decides he doesn't like startupgeek, so troll goes to the threads page for startupgeek and downmods every single comment on there. If you think someone sucks, then downmod the sucky thing they said. Not all the non-sucky things.
I guess downmodding people doesn't really do anything, anyway. I still have to see all the future stuff they write.
It would be cool if there was some way I could nuke people, so I wouldn't have to see posts or comments submitted by people like juwo, tracksuitceo, or one of guy kawasaki's sock puppets.
Re: I lost all my points (karma).
#25Thanks for restoring my karma everyone.
No problem.
Re: I lost all my points (karma).
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should downmod the comments, not the person. What's happening here is that troll decides he doesn't like startupgeek, so troll goes to the threads page for startupgeek and downmods every single comment on there. If you think someone sucks, then downmod the sucky thing they said. Not all the non-sucky things.
I guess downmodding people doesn't really do anything, anyway. I still have to see all the future stuff they write. It would be cool if there was some way I could nuke people, so I wouldn't have to see posts or comments submitted by people like juwo, tracksuitceo, or one of guy kawasaki's sock puppets.
Play nice.
Re: I lost all my points (karma).
#27Re: I lost all my points (karma).
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess downmodding people doesn't really do anything, anyway. I still have to see all the future stuff they write. It would be cool if there was some way I could nuke people, so I wouldn't have to see posts or comments submitted by people like juwo, tracksuitceo, or one of guy kawasaki's sock puppets.
Play nice.
You missed PQ.
Re: I lost all my points (karma).
#29If you can't downvote away people's karma, how do you make people who suck go away?
Often it's behaviors that suck, not people.
If you dislike something someone has said, the best way to deal with that is to reply explaining why. That's more work than just downmodding them, but it can pay off in the long term if you can turn someone into a useful contributor to the site instead of just making them leave.
Re: I lost all my points (karma).
#30If you can't downvote away people's karma, how do you make people who suck go away?
You should downmod the comments, not the person. What's happening here is that troll decides he doesn't like startupgeek, so troll goes to the threads page for startupgeek and downmods every single comment on there. If you think someone sucks, then downmod the sucky thing they said. Not all the non-sucky things.
Right. There is no such thing as downvoting someone's karma. What you vote upon (unless you abuse the system) are individual comments and submissions. Karma is an overall score, not something you edit at will.