Topic Voting Anyone?

olishea

May I ask a Safari user who had problems with voting to erase the Safari cache and try to vote again and tell me the result?
I made some changes in the code but can't test as we do not have a Mac.

Emptied caches and it still doesn't work. I'll update Safari and try again.

srx

Good addition. I guess some more design work is needed to make it part of the whole. Smaller numbers, simpler and one color up and down signs, more like the rest of sketchUcation symbols...

Gábor

@olishea said:

Emptied caches and it still doesn't work. I'll update Safari and try again.

Thank you Olishea for letting me know. As I mentioned you in PM if you have the time and wish to participate in a step-by step debugging, we can do that. Maybe Skype or gmail voice chat could make it more effective. Let's discuss it in PM if you wish.

Box

One thing to note, to make the votes meaningful you really need to see both numbers.
Showing only the combined result gives you a skewed perspective.

A post might be very controversial and 500 people vote it up while 499 people vote it down, leaving a lame 1 vote up which suggests indifference rather than a divided community.

Dave R

Still looking for Mac users to test? I just voted one up and another down.

Gábor

@dave r said:

Still looking for Mac users to test? ....

Thank you Dave,

Yes, we are looking mainly for Mac users who are unable to vote and have the time to make some online testing with us.

Thank you for letting me know your results.

TIG

I just voted with my MAC Mini [Mavericks] and it seems OK to me

mwm5053

Here too, voting thumbs working but not seeing any squares like WB reported

wind-borne

@mwm5053 said:

Here too, voting thumbs working but not seeing any squares like WB reported

Gabor and I resolved my issue

tt_su

@rich o brien said:

Do you want to see who voted for you?

No. I think this should be anonymous - like on StackOverflow.

@rich o brien said:

Do you want to be notified when your posts are voted on?

Nooooo! Nonononono! nope!

tt_su

@rich o brien said:

@andybot said:

Hey, I can negative vote on my post, but not upvote....

You've only one chance at voting so make it count

Awh - but I can never make up my mind! You know my mood swings...

Dave R

What about that old saying from Chicago? You know, "Vote early and vote often."

Rich O Brien

@tt_su said:

like on StackOverflow

Precisely....

Showing who's voted requires a changes to the TOS ond PP of the site which would mean asking everyone to agree to these changes using some type of pop-up blah blah blah...

IMO...and this is with the Admin hat off...

I don't want to know who rates + or - on my posts. The system is about getting the best answer earmarked through voting and delivering that answer in a manner like this...

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Then this could be toggled on and off...

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These are just ideas that will help current and new members know where great answers are and who good members are.

Mike Lucey

The system is working for me. Just gave Dave a vote above.

Dave R

@mike lucey said:

The system is working for me. Just gave Dave a vote above.

And I wasn't even standing for office.

Krisidious

love the stack overflow approach. like the totaling vote count on profiles too.

andybot

@rich o brien said:

@tt_su said:

like on StackOverflow

Precisely....

Showing who's voted requires a changes to the TOS ond PP of the site which would mean asking everyone to agree to these changes using some type of pop-up blah blah blah...

...

I don't want to know who rates + or - on my posts. The system is about getting the best answer earmarked through voting

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I still think some people's upvote is more valuable than others, so it would be good imo to differentiate.

For a specific example, in the vray forum there was a time when many people were saying explode all your groups and components to get a scene to render properly. Numerous "lesser-informed" users kept agreeing and seconding the advice, even though it was no longer necessary and just caused more problems. I'd rather see one well-informed downvoting user than 15 lemmings upvoting... jm2c

Edit: Took a look at the StackOverflow site, seems like a nice clean approach. I can get behind that