Forum Post: We need a way to vote up/down entire posts... not individual comments.
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 3 a.m. EST by imrational
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By allowing people to thumb up posts, the best discussions will rise to the surface while trolling threads will be pushed down. This wouldn't be censorship because people could scroll down to the bottom and find them. Instead, it would be prioritizing our discussions in order of value and importance.
Question...
What if the trolls thumb down the good posts and thumb up the bad posts?
Similarly - What if the infiltrators thumb up the misinformation and dissent posts and thumb down the posts calling them out?
I think a report button would be better so that the moderator could judge.
I think the posts should be arranged in two columns, one chronologically ascending, and one descending, and with other sortby parameters. We just talked about it below.
This. Specifically, Sort chronologically, sort by rating. Filter by age, too. Make ratings visible in all cases, and color code the positive and negative ratings. It's actually not all that much to ask for.
dingdingding
I think this is really important. Hope it happens.
btw, try http://superunion.org
revenue stream: membership fees $1/year (I can waive at request) owner: myself. Also, I can adjust it to our needs.
same as large corporations, the earliest 500 discussions will amass enough likes or comments, so that no new thread will go through. If a thousand people vote for one thread, they'll need to go all the way to the bottom and vote again, all of them, just to bring the new good thread up.
What if votes only had a shelf-life? Your vote would expire after 24 hours... that would free up the board once everybody had seen the discussion.
That's not a bad idea. But then you'd have a stream of new threads coming, cause you gotta arrange them somehow.
Actually, maybe only a chronological arrangement, but, say, half screen ascending | half descending Then one would always have the view of both, and would read earlier entries. And the voting would be statistical info.
agree
Agree
many of us are moving over to themultitude.org because the forum here is to chaotic
who controls the site? who are the founders? what is their revenue stream?
unknown, unknown, unknown. Whois returns domainsbyproxy. But it isn't like this site returns any different. From the site: TheMultitude.org is intended for communication within the #OccupyWallStreet community: To be a place where the movement's members, "The 99%", can come together and organize online; whether it be to organize their ideas, their plans, their information, or simply to support each other. The idea for TheMultitude.org began as a group of users frequenting occupywallst.org's proprietary forum decided that a separately-run website, dedicated to organized communication, was needed. This website is not a replacement for occupywallst.org. Rather, this site attempts to relieve the burden of public communication from that site and its organizers -- a function which they did not originally foresee growing to the degree it has. We hope you find this site useful. Please feel free to share it. If you have questions about this website, don't hesitate to post them in the Site Business section.
Thank you, TheMultitude.org
There is no revenue stream, and hopefully there won't need to be. Currently the site is run on time and money donated by its founders. If traffic grows to the point that it becomes unsustainable that way, donated web space will probably be sought from other organizations (same as this website). There wouldn't be any foreseeable need for any other funds, as an online forum is all it consists of. The founders would prefer to remain somewhat anonymous out of concern of backlash from opposers of the movement; but like you say, that's not so different from the way this site is run.
Agreed
agreed.
The forums at http://www.occupyr.com have votable posts
who controls the site? who are the founders? what is their revenue stream?
In this case I'm not going to out the guy because I think its legit. But suffice it to say the info is available if not verifiable. Whois returns: Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc. But it isn't like this site returns any different. From the site: OccupyR is a just-launched discussion network to support the Occupy resistance groups across the country. The goal behind this site is to help organize the thoughts and voices behind this movement. Some key features of include forums with subcategories, votable posts, threaded comments, search, and profile activity. More features are on the way, and you can request them at Site Feedback. You can find more about OccupyR in the about page. Edited October 12, 2011 19:53 EST
no clue, but I would love to know.
+1, agree, do it, make it so, support, aye, thumbs-up, -wiggle wiggle-
:) its hard to make me laugh after hours on here but you got it.