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Honest question... Why the hate?

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drventure:
How'd I end up with 8 rep and le Chuck got -900 some odd?   :D

I kind of like the Thumb up/down idea on posts, though. Something that would slightly influence search results to help you zero in on the better posts that match what your looking for.

pbj:

--- Quote from: drventure on February 01, 2014, 07:51:41 pm ---Something that would slightly influence search results to help you zero in on the better posts that match what your looking for.

--- End quote ---

You know, back when Google Groups was still a thing, they added up and down votes on posts and everyone was convinced that they didn't do anything.  To test it, I punched in some phrase like "Gottlieb clear coat" and had GhostMouse downvote the top results something like 20,000 times over my lunch break.  Sure enough, a couple of days later, the top results were sent far to the back. 

But the most unfortunate result was probably 10,000 posts on rec.games.pinball a year from people going, "why did someone downvote my last post?  I thought it was a good question."

Do we really want that here?  We already had "respected" members acting like pieces of garbage with the half assed system we briefly had in place.

DaOld Man:
Why cant we all just get along?

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