Yes, I am conducting a little experiment. “Disclaimer: Unless mentioned by name there is no real or inference, referring to anyone on this site, real or fictional.” I am not referring to anyone here I am providing my own example of what I see and how I understand it.
This original post as written below had 141 Views. (Thank you I appreciate that.) It had 26 comments at the time I am doing the edit. Now if all we are concerned about is views and comments. The thing I am going to do is focus on that for that on this post for a while. Maybe I am not putting the good of the site first or perhaps I am. Perhaps I have had it all wrong. Maybe commenting on my own work is somehow good for the site?
It would be great if anyone notices or reads this and takes the time to comment on it. I feel like we are all still wandering around in the forest and the admins haven’t left us any crumbs, and the rest of us are tossing them all over.
So welcome to my experiment. I hope we all learn something valuable!
I know it is scary when I feel like I must share an opinion and today I must. I am prepared for you to tell me I am totally wrong in a kind and loving way! I love all the work Doc does to help us try and understand and improve our experience on the site. I read the latest one through again and something just “bugged me”. It was nothing that Doc said or did it was something “we” voted on.
Q: WE SHOULD GET 1 VIRIL FOR UPVOTES?Yes (15 votes) – 68%No (7 votes) – 32%
You don’t even have to open a post and read it to put an upvote. You could simply go tromping up and down the page doing this all day long. The only reason I even see to have the up and down vote is on posts where you use them to change the order (ranked posts and very few even know how to use that.) Now that seems like an opening for trolls (the new kind I learned about, not the ones I collected.)
My heroes are the seven people who thought it through and voted No to a viril for an upvote or downvote for that matter. I truly hope they never make the mistake of giving us a viril for an upvote. That is simply my opinion.
I think most people use it as a bookmark to note that they looked at a post.
So what do you think about edited posts now?
I don’t know if you have all read the post by Doc on how to have fun on virily, you should. This experiment has turned out to be kind of fun and an interesting example. Have you read Doc’s post?
I thought you said we shouldn’t do this. I am very confused.
@Gramps I did say that. This was an experiment and perhaps something I should not have done. A girl can change her mind.
I missed that one but I wouldn’t support earning virils for voting. It will be abused thereby loosening its value. Apart from showing my reaction to the post, I also upvote to mark I had read a post which I had not commented.
I think a lot of people use up vote to remind themselves that they have read it.
you really got a lot of views on this one originally!
Well, I was hoping we would hear from the staff, but so far things have been quiet.
i don’t think you will. sorry. they said they were very busy.
I agree with alibb’s thinking. I always thought it was strange how the voting system works. I have learned to accept how it is and just do my best, and try to read and comment when I can. Thank you for this post!
I try and use them on ranking posts and no seems to understand that you have to downvote sometimes to get your choice into number one. Maybe I will try another post explaining that.
So if you told me two weeks ago, I would be trying and experiment like this I would have said that was craziness. I have now officially reached crazy.
I don’t know. I learned that, after reading Doc’s findings, I’ll just keep writing interesting articles as others ‘blog-bomb’ (as I see happenig which I can’t keep up), reading and commenting and hope for the best. I give upvotes because I honestly appreciate the author’s effort and interesting info he/she writes about.
Can you explain what you mean by blog-bomb. You totally lost me.
Like photo bomb on my friends’ and relatives’ social media Facebook.
On Virily, I admire writers who write everyday and not only one or two per day. Aren’t they amazing?!
There are many amazing people here. It is great to have always have something different to check out.
I agree. That’s why I deliberately search out for them.
You make an excellent point. There are enough open doors for abuse. We don’t need another.
That is another point of view as well. There is a slippery slope.
I think putting it inside would be better. I would trust it more.
well now, i have to say two things.
1. I had not considered this side.
2. I get suggestions from all sorts of authors on Virily
The requestor for this particular change pointed out the following.
More than half of the authors do not comment but instead only upvote. not arguing just getting the other side out!
And my question is what is an upvote? It doesn’t mean you read it, but you could have. When I see an upvote or downvote with no comment I assume they most likely didn’t even open the post.
so let’s move the upvote to inside the post! that way you don’t have to worry. at least they opened the post.
I would say more than 1/2 the comments I get at times the person didn’t even read the post. That has gone down (more reading) lately.
Oh my. Well sometimes I get confused about posts, but I certainly read them. Sometimes two or three times if I get lost.
On another subject – I think that until the whole edit issue goes away they should drop most commented. I never look at those now because I don’t feel like they are accurate.
interesting idea, to drop most commented.
I think it is better for the community to be nice.
edited posts that pop on those lists impact other authors.
It just makes me sad.
so do you think the upvote buried in the post only would help or hurt?
I don’t think to get virils for upvote will bring benefits for the site. Instead, it will create room for system abuse. We should give upvote because we like a post and part of interaction among us.
I think the only real-time to use the up and down vote is in a ranking post.
What I do is upvote right before I go and read the post. I do this because I find that I like the posts I am reading so I can upvote before I read. What was odd one day was that I read a post and suddenly for some reason, I thought I had not upvoted that post. So I upvoted at the end of the post and it marked it as a downvote because I had already upvoted. Odd, isn’t it?
As per my knowledge, double upvote will result a down vote.
It does odd things when you play around with it. I checked it out with one of my own posts. I didn’t want to rile anyone up.
In my opinion, there are quite a few members who “take advantage” of the system.
In what way vidocka?
@vidocka – I am still waiting to hear and answer.
I don’t think that the person who upvotes or downvotes needs to be rewarded with a viril.
Me either. It seems to me that most people use it to keep track of posts they have read. They don’t even have to open it to up or down vote. I don’t see the value.
I actually do think that its a good idea IF they remove the voting from the home page … so that users have to at least click in and scroll to the end to vote … it’s not “free” virils, you’ve to work a bit for it :p
Well, that makes more sense than the way it is now alibb – good thinking.
I am among the 7 who voted no! I hate when someone gives upvote without viewing the post!
It seems like you have very strong feelings about this.
Of course, it would be beneficial for the members if they get a viril for upvoting. If I remember it right, the system used to do that.
However, I agree with you that it was prone to misuse and abuse. The upvote/downvote buttons are available on the list of posts.
I believe, if they should give a viril for upvoting or downvoting, that option should be made available only on the content page and after the content.
Thank you for your kindness and we can happily agree to disagree.