Meta: I suggest that when upvotes are used to implement a poll, the post author would also provide a comment to be downvoted by poll participants in order to balance the the author’s karma (so as to not create a norm that might be exploited by others for gaining karma).
Also, I suggest placing all the poll comments under one parent comment.
Good suggestions! Thanks for flagging. I think a better, longer-term way to solve this is we need a poll feature then on the Forum, rather than just the downvoting solution.
I suggest upvoted comments are those people like and hence are a legitimate means of gaining karma. If people don’t like the comments, they won’t upvote them, right?
I think “poll comments” are a normal form of comment which should sit amongst normal comments rather than being relegated to a parent comment. Some people like to show appreciation for consensus statements, others like to upvote very specific blocks of text. This upvote system lets us order the two.
Meta: I suggest that when upvotes are used to implement a poll, the post author would also provide a comment to be downvoted by poll participants in order to balance the the author’s karma (so as to not create a norm that might be exploited by others for gaining karma).
Also, I suggest placing all the poll comments under one parent comment.
Good suggestions! Thanks for flagging. I think a better, longer-term way to solve this is we need a poll feature then on the Forum, rather than just the downvoting solution.
I like what you’ve done here.
I don’t see how a poll feature would be specifically better than this is currently. How do you think it could be improved?
I suggest upvoted comments are those people like and hence are a legitimate means of gaining karma. If people don’t like the comments, they won’t upvote them, right?
I think “poll comments” are a normal form of comment which should sit amongst normal comments rather than being relegated to a parent comment. Some people like to show appreciation for consensus statements, others like to upvote very specific blocks of text. This upvote system lets us order the two.
Thanks for your work Anonymous 9.