It seems that now it is possible to upvote my own posts anonymously. The eternal question naturally rises: should I? In theory I think my post is useful, otherwise I wouldn’t have posted it, but at the same time if I upvote it, it feels like giving a high-five to myself. On a more serious note: is this a bug or a feature?
Do you mean that you’re able to vote on posts when you aren’t logged in? If so, that’s a bug, though I haven’t been able to replicate it myself.
If you mean that you can vote on your own posts from a different account you created, that’s not permitted on the Forum:
It’s fine to make a pseudonymous account in order to express views you wish to keep anonymous. It’s not acceptable to vote multiple times on the same material, to use multiple accounts to express the same opinion multiple times, or to impersonate other people.
No, I mean that you can upvote your own posts with the same account you used to post them. You can even upvote your own comments with the same account you used to comment.
Edit: it seems like that now there is a pre-casted vote when you post something, but you can still turn it in a strong vote.
That’s right, this is intended as a feature. All comments and posts start with a weak upvote (we assume you think the thing is good, or you wouldn’t have posted it). You can strong upvote your content, which is designed as a way for you to signal-boost contributions that you think are unusually valuable. Obviously, we don’t want people to be strong-upvoting all their content, and we’ll keep an eye on that happening.
It seems that now it is possible to upvote my own posts anonymously. The eternal question naturally rises: should I? In theory I think my post is useful, otherwise I wouldn’t have posted it, but at the same time if I upvote it, it feels like giving a high-five to myself. On a more serious note: is this a bug or a feature?
Emanuele,
Do you mean that you’re able to vote on posts when you aren’t logged in? If so, that’s a bug, though I haven’t been able to replicate it myself.
If you mean that you can vote on your own posts from a different account you created, that’s not permitted on the Forum:
No, I mean that you can upvote your own posts with the same account you used to post them. You can even upvote your own comments with the same account you used to comment.
Edit: it seems like that now there is a pre-casted vote when you post something, but you can still turn it in a strong vote.
That’s right, this is intended as a feature. All comments and posts start with a weak upvote (we assume you think the thing is good, or you wouldn’t have posted it). You can strong upvote your content, which is designed as a way for you to signal-boost contributions that you think are unusually valuable. Obviously, we don’t want people to be strong-upvoting all their content, and we’ll keep an eye on that happening.