Please remove the up/down arrow feature

Right folks. This particular section is a question and answer forum. Good answers should migrate to the top and - why are we having a discussion on a question and answer thread?
 
stockers said:
Right folks. This particular section is a question and answer forum. Good answers should migrate to the top and - why are we having a discussion on a question and answer thread?
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Good question, well presented :nerd::nerd:
 
Oh I have been having fun....

I also noticed that the emojis now have a couple new ones that can be taken as negative... and a "bad spelling" one.... wow, that usually lights people off like roman candles!

boring, indifferent, hmm.....

While artificial, keeping anyone from posting "negatives", whether reaction emojis or downvoting, in my opinion, it keeps things friendlier.... because most of us are old cranky farts who are absolutely sure we are 100% right...

Greg
 
JimmyB said:
wandgrudd wandgrudd seems to have voted most people down, but made no response as to why!
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Real Work/Life called before I could finish plying about, I thought I liked the up down vote buttons but it just seems to get confusing as the flow of the thread goes hay wire (more than usual). I suppose if you’re in a rush it might work assuming you up vote the right answer and down vote the wrong one technically the right answer should be at the top, but it seems to work a bit odd as we all start on 0 but I down vote to -1 the next person could up vote but it only goes back to 0 rather than +1 which I assume puts the post back to its original position, needs bit more playing about yet to get the full hang of it.
 
Greg Elmassian said:
Oh I have been having fun....

I also noticed that the emojis now have a couple new ones that can be taken as negative... and a "bad spelling" one.... wow, that usually lights people off like roman candles!
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Greg
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And is that US or UK spelling? Minefield ahead. :)
 
The 'arrows' give a 'rating' (it appears) but do not alter position in the 'flow' of the thread.. - Think about it.. If they did, the context of the reply would be lost, if it was moved above the posting it applied to..
So you have to trawl-through to find the 'most voted for' which should be 'most correct answer' to the question..
Are we having a quantum of fun yet? :(o_O
 
PhilP said:
The 'arrows' give a 'rating' (it appears) but do not alter position in the 'flow' of the thread.. - Think about it.. If they did, the context of the reply would be lost, if it was moved above the posting it applied to..
So you have to trawl-through to find the 'most voted for' which should be 'most correct answer' to the question..
Are we having a quantum of fun yet? :(o_O
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I suppose it could be useful, given our penchant for thread drift, that if you picked up on a thread of interest later in the thread, you could easily separate the wheat from the chaff :nerd::nerd::nerd:

Provided, of course, that we don't start 'rating' the obviously stoopid :shake::shake::shake::shake:


But, I mean, who on earth would do a thing like that :speechless::speechless::speechless:
 
wandgrudd said:
Real Work/Life called before I could finish plying about, I thought I liked the up down vote buttons but it just seems to get confusing as the flow of the thread goes hay wire (more than usual). I suppose if you’re in a rush it might work assuming you up vote the right answer and down vote the wrong one technically the right answer should be at the top, but it seems to work a bit odd as we all start on 0 but I down vote to -1 the next person could up vote but it only goes back to 0 rather than +1 which I assume puts the post back to its original position, needs bit more playing about yet to get the full hang of it.
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To add also just noticed it keeps the original question at the top no mater the number of pages we are on, or have i been blind and its always done that?
 
PhilP said:
The 'arrows' give a 'rating' (it appears) but do not alter position in the 'flow' of the thread.. - Think about it.. If they did, the context of the reply would be lost, if it was moved above the posting it applied to..
So you have to trawl-through to find the 'most voted for' which should be 'most correct answer' to the question..
Are we having a quantum of fun yet? :(o_O
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it alters the position this end, unless it works different my end, thus upvoting you moves your post to the bottom of the +1 posts above the 0 posts.
 
Unless you have to 'click something' to get a display in 'vote order'...

For me, this thread is resolutely in post # order..
 
PhilP said:
Unless you have to 'click something' to get a display in 'vote order'...

For me, this thread is resolutely in post # order..
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No today its back in order, but don't remember clicking anything other than the up or down votes.
 
Not played with the feature enough, but knowing how technical our questions can be, and that the thread can quite often go off at a tangent (all-be-it connected to the original problem) if the 'answers' moved out of sequence / context, it would render the thread useless.
IMHO, YMMV of course.
 
Maybe then we should try not to wander far from answering the original question. BTW, you can change the sort order using the button at the top right of the thread.... which alternates "Sort by votes" / "Sort by Date"
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But if we didn't vote, we wouldn't need to sort the posts ;)
 
PhilP said:
The 'arrows' give a 'rating' (it appears) but do not alter position in the 'flow' of the thread.. - Think about it.. If they did, the context of the reply would be lost, if it was moved above the posting it applied to..
So you have to trawl-through to find the 'most voted for' which should be 'most correct answer' to the question..
Are we having a quantum of fun yet? :(o_O
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Absolutely spot on! So instead of a thread showing the evolution of an answer/consensus... the top voted post jumps to the top.

Theoretically if there was a SINGLE, STANDALONE answer to a SINGLE question this would work.

In my experience, there's mostly good information with about 20% crap posts thrown in and at least minor thread drift.

Yes, I get that I can change the sort order... I think it's too much "technical fluff" to really be useful UNLESS almost everyone gets on board, and still will need a lot of "moderator help" to keep it really focused.

I manage about 7 forums, and in my experience over the last about 20 years, I have only attempted to police a forum to that degree once... it was a extremely focused forum and it was WAY too much work.

That's my take on this.

Greg
 
Greg Elmassian said:
Oh I have been having fun....

I also noticed that the emojis now have a couple new ones that can be taken as negative... and a "bad spelling" one.... wow, that usually lights people off like roman candles!

boring, indifferent, hmm.....

While artificial, keeping anyone from posting "negatives", whether reaction emojis or downvoting, in my opinion, it keeps things friendlier.... because most of us are old cranky farts who are absolutely sure we are 100% right...

Greg
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Help, I'm sorry....... I pressed something and changed all the reactions to this reply. I didn't mean it, honestly! I'm not even sure what I touched. And deity only knows how to utilise it back:blush:
 
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