Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Choli

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Originally posted by WDZ
Do you think ALL votes should be public, even if there's no comment? Or should a comment be required? Someone could still vote based on a grudge and just not leave a comment... nobody would know what the vote was for.

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If a comment is required and I don't want to give one I could put "None", filling the comment box and submit the reputation. There should be an option / a way to make votes be private. And maybe all private reputations should have a comment, eh?

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That defeats the point in making it public to prevent sentences as "blah said blah about you" or "you stink" I think...


I think everyhting should be public... That way, if somebody has a grunge on somebody. The negative vote (including the voters name) will show up for everybody to see between the positive ones. The voter can indeed leave a blank comment (or "none"), but it will still be suspecious if only he voted negative. And since it is public, we all can see who that person is (and if this happens again and again with him/her, measures can be taken)... I hope I explained it well

It's almost exactly as how the ebay-system works btw... But in the eBay system you can even select a user and not only show all the votes he got, but also show all the votes ha has given. This is an excellent system to find out if somebody's vote is something valuable or not (if he always votes negative, you now his vote means shit...) Again... because it is public, you will rule out many abuses...