Recommendation: For Top Its OR Drop Its!

Your welcome Eric :) Lynn

Sounds good. Thanks Lynn

Your welcome :) Lynn

hahaha..its not that its never going to end. It just goes to show everyone that this is a good topic.

And I think we are looking forward to the new (WOA) beta. Thanks Lynn.

Alright, I can see that this could go forever. So I will say at the time of this posting, there are no plans of implementing this kind of feature. This is not to say, that down the line we won't address this concern. But, right now we all should be looking at the larger picture. Such as the "World of Apsense(WOA) beta, launches September 10, 2007!".Now this is going to be great! Lynn

HI ERIC,

Yea your right. We have to move on forward.

But, when it comes to something new successful people use the system " Plan, Do and Review" So what Im saying any feedback positive or negative falls under the review. If we can only review the positves, we would keep doing the right things to a succesful business, but if we dont learn from the negatives we would keep doing the wrong things. So thats why its important to know both sides, so in the future your less likely to have negativity

An anonymous remark makes the user (voter) think whether they got it right or not. And if the anonymous remarks were logged in the users member area they could look at them as constructive criticism and use the remarks to make improvements to their ABC's. Things they may not have thought of.

Like a "private" testimonial...

Eric,
My response to an anonymous remark, would be "why?". That would still not give actual accountability or change your score back. Also your average score will just change from time to time also. Not everybody will see your business center the same way. And like I have mentioned , once the site starts growing and members start using the exchange more a few votes won't matter. Lynn

Hi Lynn,

My thoughts are for an anonymous remark as to why the vote was lowered. No one would need to know who made the vote - except the person who made it. It would make them stop and think - Did i make the right decision with that vote ? The accountability lies with the person making the vote.

But thats enough about that - it has nothing to do with Luis' original question. I just made a side note so as not to confuse my thoughts on not needing accountability in the blog or group discuss

Eric,
Since you went of topic, I will go off topic to answer you. This has been brought up many times before and it falls under the same answer-it would just generate abuse in other areas of the site. We need to think of the larger picture...and not the handful of members who choose to play games with the scoring. As the site grows and more members use the exchange these members who continue to play with the scores will not matter. The majority will speak and your score will reflect this. L

Hi Luis,

Not really. I focus more on what my next topic will be more so than what my top or drop rate is. But thats just me.

(...I don't mean to go off topic but the BCE is one place where accountability would be a good option. Particularly for higher ranked sites. If an ABC has ranked 8 - 10 on average then all of a sudden gets a 4, I think this is where a message should be written as to why a low vote was given, one member in particular stated in another topic how he has rated high - the

Your right Eric. But wouldnt you like to know why? Of course everyone writes the good about it under the comments but most people just like to be negative but they wont say why?

Just like Ebay, if your selling something andd you either dont send it on time or your product is not good quality, most of the time you'll get negative feedback. But at least it shows you whom left that negative feedback and sometimes they leave you a message and sometimes they dont. All Im saying why cant it be l

From a Blog or group discussion point of view if someone wanted to leave a comment and mention they topped the subject they can do so in this comments section.

In this section however, its a bit like giving a donation - we don't do it to get a big head - we do it because we value what & who we are giving it to.

Your welcome Luis. I am glad that you understand the reason. I would like to think that most members would handle it correctly. But, then again you always have to factor in human nature :) Talk soon, Lynn

I understand you Lynn. And I have never been that person to give paybacks. All I would want, is to talk to the person and know why that person feels that way. I always love hearing the Pros and Cons. But oh well your right. You just gotta move on. But remember theres always gonna be that person whose gonna stand out. And I think Im one of those. lol..hahaha but thanks.

Yea thats true! But what about the people that are interested in your subject? So your telling me that you wont post that subject or somewhat similar since out of 43 hits that people have been on your blog or what not have took the time and liberty to read your it. But out of 43 hits only 1 has felt negative about ones owns opinions. What about then?

Hi Luis,
I was just talking with Kristian and we are more focused on the positive (the topping) of subjects. If someone feels that a post is not relevant or spam, they just need to leave it at zero. This is alot better all the way around. As far as letting you know who has topped or dropped your post - that won't happen. The reason is because that would lead to further abuse of the system, in the form of paybacks. Don't feel bad, I have had posts dropped here in the apsense group, there will

I feel it's fine the way it is. If people don't like my subject, then, that's fine. At least I'm getting to know what they're interested in and won't post that subject again. I don't need to know why. Everyone's taste is different and I'm willing to go along with the majority. At least the subjects that will be posted will be popular ones and of interest to the majority of folks!