Is this really the extent of XIV endgame?

#77 Jun 20 2013 at 8:06 AM Rating: Excellent

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BartelX wrote:

BrokenFox wrote:

Right. While I agree with BartelX on the karma system I also don't take it too seriously. I only down vote people if they're acting like douchebags, not because I disagree with them.

The problem is, ~~a lot~~ some people downvote just because they don't like someone or disagree with what someone says, and that's where I think the system is rather broken.

Edited because I realize I was being a bit over the top.

Edited, Jun 19th 2013 10:17pm by BartelX

I tend to up vote people who are either very thought provoking (as opposed to just emotionally provocative) or who express an idea I agree with or would have posted myself, but in a clearer fashion than I would have done.

I tend to down vote only when someone is engaging in a negative pattern, either by a banal expression of negativity (beating a dead horse), or by being so inflammatory or engaging in personal attacks that have no possible purpose except to pick a fight.

I tend to up vote much more than I down vote, but my down votes tend to go the same posters over and over, while up votes tend to be spread around more.

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#78 Jun 20 2013 at 8:36 AM Rating: Good

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I was going to write out a big response about this, but there's really no point. It's been made abundantly clear that the system won't be changing. That's fine.

The only other thing I'll say is, I think it frustrates a lot of people to have to constantly edit what they're going to say and walk around on eggshells if they don't want to get rated down. For those posters without a 6k posting reservoir, it's a lot more noticeable when they get rate downs, and I feel like a lot of people don't even say what they're really thinking for fear that they'll just get rated into oblivion for having a dissenting point of view. I certainly don't think the system encourages people to speak their mind freely all the time.

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