New feature: Vote comments up/down

I don't think marking likes/dislikes is a problem, but I'd rather have them in the order they were posted, at least as an option.

Yeah, this isn't like reddit where the most popular comments will appear first in the thread, is it? It's just about gauging their popularity right?

No, all this does is display the number of up and down votes under the comment. It doesn't change the order.

Edit: testing if this messes with the votes

i like that it has up and down displayed separately, rather than trying to add the two up like some sites do.

are ups/downs preserved if a comment is edited?

Good question. I just edited my comment above and it didn't affect the ups/downs, so looks like it's ok.

you can vote a comment up AND down if you want, weird...

Don't call it 'up/down' then. Have it as 'likes' or 'useful' or summat.

in the new theme, we might be able to replace the words with icons of thumbs up/thumbs down or something. Basically if the concept works and people make use of it we can tweak it later, and then maybe add further functionality.

I've just voted everybody down

Now I'll see if I can vote me up

Edit: yes I can!

Edit again: not that I'm competitive or anyfink

Can vote twice, that ok? (edit: can't any more. could have been that by the time i clicked 'upped (1)' on someone's post, 2 other people voted up?)

Are votes anonymous (to end users at least)?

I#m ambivalent and have thus voted both ways.

I have voted everyone DOWN

Yeah, I think this function will be useful for casual browsers to be able to distinguish between the type of thing the site supports and that which it doesn't. For example, some people have complained about sexism on the site, and when asked examples of this they have pointed out threads which were started by newbies who were then heavily slagged off or even banned by regular users and administrators. This up/down voting should enable casual readers to be able to see what kind of comment/behaviour is really part of the ethos of the site and what is not.

So please do use the votes to indicate which posts you agree with and which you did not. And also of course please do respond to comments you agree/disagree with to let us know what you think and why.

why can't you vote up or down the original post in a thread?

I can already see the shitstorms.

PS. Fuck you Serge, I just voted you down!!!

Love you really!

Just don't turn libcom into Facebook please.

Might be an interesting feature. The only worry I have is that it might encourage sniping or the type of ganging up "bullying" sort of competitive culture of many areas of the internet. Although this is a much better type of feedback (the up or downs) for constructive conversation than telling someone they are "fucking stupid", haha.

yeah, TBH I think this would be good. It would at least give an indicator of how much we agree with whatever article was posted. Although we wouldn't want people who had contributed content they had put time and effort into having people casually vote it down if they disagreed with some of it. That might discourage people from posting content again, so maybe we should steer clear of it. Although maybe we should at least try it first to see what happens

You can bookmark original posts, which is pretty much a 'like' button already. I think it's better people discuss why they don't like a post rather than just clicking a 'dislike' button though, so i think it makes sense to treat nodes (original posts) and comments differently.

Dear god this is fucking stupid.

I've got the most 'down' votes now, which means you all walked into my trap and I win!!!

I even voted you up for voting me down

Please do not do this! Why on earth do you want to take Libcom down some kind of populist road?

This makes me want to go through all the old discussions to vote different comments up and down…

Actually we've got something similar to this on the AF internal forums. The main difference there though is, you can actually see who voted you up or down... and so, if you're a grudgebearer, you can batter them next time you see them at a national meeting

It's already working.

I haven't tired reloading the page but if I click the up/down button again it undoes my vote.

I don't know if I entirely approve yet. I worry it might dissuade people from joining discussions by giving them a too-easy option of 'upping' or 'downing' rather than coming up with a response. Just a thought.

It looks crap, it doesn't work (you can vote both ways on same post), it adds additional 'noise' to posts. Please get rid of it.

Expect more comments like that after the redesign. Then in a year's time ask them what it used to look like...