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The House of Moth Tinkerer Ohio, USA -------- Joined: Oct 18, 2021 Posts: 108 Likes: 225 |
Oct 19, 2021 - #1
I just made a post:
It would be nice if the community can downvote a post like this in case it contains wrong/bad information that would cause someone following that advice to end up damaging their board, or something along those lines. For example I am new to working on beige Macs and dound this battery holder a great option. But if those more experienced at this feel this is a horrible suggestion for whatever reason, their ability to downvote it would let the rest of the community know it's potentially bad info. Rather than just delete it, downvotes and a discussion in that thread could be a big help. I say downvotes but any kind of flag to indicate *potentially bad info* would work. With enough downvotes the admins/mods could review the post and see if it needs to be edited or have a warning slapped on it at the top of the post (if the author does not want to edit it).
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Androda TinkerDifferent Board Secretary 2023 USA, Western -------- Joined: Sep 25, 2021 Posts: 523 Likes: 581 |
Oct 19, 2021 - #2
Maybe a Mac with question marks as eyes?
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Kai Robinson TinkerDifferent Board President 2023 Worthing, UK -------- Joined: Sep 2, 2021 Posts: 1,322 Likes: 1,313 |
Oct 30, 2021 - #3
It looks like Xenforo theoretically supports this - but downvote buttons can be abused. I think once we're better established, mods should look at the cases individually and suggest to the OP of the thread/post that they might want to change what they posted - users have the ability to edit all their posts, or remove them entirely.
For now, i recommend using the 'report' button on a post, and we'll look into the postings :) Liked by The House of Moth |
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XodiumLabs Tinkerer South Bay Area, CA -------- Joined: Oct 25, 2021 Posts: 64 Likes: 115 |
Oct 30, 2021 - #4
Being on reddit quite a lot and coming from that point of view, I honestly never found downvotes that effective. All they did was allow a subset of people who disagreed with you (even if your information was good) to drown you out. As Kai says, I think in cases where the downvote would be applicable, you should just report since I think this forum would be WAY more strict on moderation, anyway, so less chance of that happening, IMO. But it's still the early days so who knows!
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