I've always liked the idea of needing to "spend" your useless internet points to vote. New accounts would have to actually participate in the site to be able to vote (or gain something like a few points a day), and users who participate a lot would rarely, if ever, run out of points.
This would be a VERY fundamental change, however, and I'm sure there would be too many drawbacks to such a system.
EDIT: feel free to continue down-voting a mere opinion when I already said it wouldn't work.
Like I said, there would be many drawbacks. You couldn't just switch to such a system, a whole new one would have to be built from the ground up around it. An alternative method would have every account with a 'budget' that increases the more you upvote and decreases the more you downvote. That would make bot accounts that downvote everything on the site a lot harder to implement, but a modicum of participation would leave you free to downvote, as long as you were contributing positive input at a higher rate.
I'm just spit-balling about social media sites in general, not actually making suggestions for this site.
I like that although I'm not sure it needs to go to a mod queue for review. What if your name, after the pts for the current post, to have in parenthesis the overall +/- on like the past 2 days. So if someone had upvoted 20 posts and downvoted 10 they'd have a +10. By keeping it a short window of time (I just pulled 2 days out of my ass) it would prevent things from getting too crazy on the numbers displayed. Actually maybe not even a time window, a vote window, so like the last 20 upvotes or downvotes showed, that way nobody would ever be outside the -20 to +20 range.
Exactly. I think there is something there, it just needs something more to make it work right. A 'reddit-like' site would have to be built around such a system from the ground up, too. It couldn't just be switched on a whim.
I've always liked the idea of needing to "spend" your useless internet points to vote. New accounts would have to actually participate in the site to be able to vote (or gain something like a few points a day), and users who participate a lot would rarely, if ever, run out of points.
This would be a VERY fundamental change, however, and I'm sure there would be too many drawbacks to such a system.
EDIT: feel free to continue down-voting a mere opinion when I already said it wouldn't work.
Like I said, there would be many drawbacks. You couldn't just switch to such a system, a whole new one would have to be built from the ground up around it. An alternative method would have every account with a 'budget' that increases the more you upvote and decreases the more you downvote. That would make bot accounts that downvote everything on the site a lot harder to implement, but a modicum of participation would leave you free to downvote, as long as you were contributing positive input at a higher rate.
I'm just spit-balling about social media sites in general, not actually making suggestions for this site.
I like that although I'm not sure it needs to go to a mod queue for review. What if your name, after the pts for the current post, to have in parenthesis the overall +/- on like the past 2 days. So if someone had upvoted 20 posts and downvoted 10 they'd have a +10. By keeping it a short window of time (I just pulled 2 days out of my ass) it would prevent things from getting too crazy on the numbers displayed. Actually maybe not even a time window, a vote window, so like the last 20 upvotes or downvotes showed, that way nobody would ever be outside the -20 to +20 range.
Ooooo like a gold-backed currency vs fiat!
Exactly. I think there is something there, it just needs something more to make it work right. A 'reddit-like' site would have to be built around such a system from the ground up, too. It couldn't just be switched on a whim.