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If 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.
If 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.
Wasn't this forum created partially because reddit was overwhelmed by the hordes and all the interesting startup information was lost in the noise?
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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.
I applaud your ability to maintain an optimistic viewpoint about humans even though all evidence points the opposite direction. What you're suggesting is completely unprecedented on the internet. What always happens is that an open forum is eventually overwhelmed by trolls and morons, and all the smart people give up. There has never been a case where a troll or a moron turned into a useful contributor because of tho…
But no, it was created primarily as a test for Arc. The fact that it's so beneficial and awesome is a wonderful side effect.
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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.
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Downmodded for being mean, and you only joined two weeks ago. Who are you to say? Edit: I apologize for not sensing teh humorz. It was not so blatant.
Upmodded for not sensing blatant sarcasm.
You're right. Someone went on a downmodding spree. I restored your karma. 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...
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I applaud your ability to maintain an optimistic viewpoint about humans even though all evidence points the opposite direction. What you're suggesting is completely unprecedented on the internet. What always happens is that an open forum is eventually overwhelmed by trolls and morons, and all the smart people give up. There has never been a case where a troll or a moron turned into a useful contributor because of tho…
You'll very much enjoy reading http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html But no, it was created primarily as a test for Arc. The fact that it's so beneficial and awesome is a wonderful side effect.
http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html
Yes, because of reddit. Yes, because of Arc. But mostly because it's a good way to learn about people.
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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.
I applaud your ability to maintain an optimistic viewpoint about humans even though all evidence points the opposite direction. What you're suggesting is completely unprecedented on the internet. What always happens is that an open forum is eventually overwhelmed by trolls and morons, and all the smart people give up. There has never been a case where a troll or a moron turned into a useful contributor because of tho…
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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.
I applaud your ability to maintain an optimistic viewpoint about humans even though all evidence points the opposite direction. What you're suggesting is completely unprecedented on the internet. What always happens is that an open forum is eventually overwhelmed by trolls and morons, and all the smart people give up. There has never been a case where a troll or a moron turned into a useful contributor because of tho…
We'll never get the onslaught of 14 year olds they got at digg and reddit because most of them aren't interested in startups. You don't get idiots in your comment threads till you have this on your frontpage
http://power-robot.blogspot.com/2007/08/when-in-rome.html
so as long as we kill offtopic submissions, we should be safe.