likes/posts ratio

[Funky Ghost]

Umm

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[5StringBlues]

That's just a matter of not looking at it realistically. Sure, someone could establish a 10 year account with 10,000 posts only saying "+1." My 15 year membership with 25k+ posts could all be an elaborate plot to cheat someone out of a $14 set of strings in the Classifieds. The reality is that these are the extremely rare exceptions to the rule; issues arise most often from new and/or unestablished members. Having a long term membership along with a searchable history of posts can establish both your trust in a user and lets you see what the rest of the community thinks of them as well. TalkBass is far from the first to use this idea- you're going to get a sore wrist if you want to start shaking your fist at all of the businesses that have an "established..." date on the front of their building

And FWIW, the +1 phenomenon was always massively less used outside of OT, and the advent of the likes system reduced it greatly even there.

+1

 

[Funky Ghost]

+1

QFT

 

[FingerDub]

That will be the last time I ever like one of your posts. No offense.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

You're jealous of my likes count?

 

[Dug2]

gave ya another one

 

[FingerDub]

You're jealous of my likes count?

+1

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Not sure why, your 1.53 ratio isn't bad.

 

[Funky Ghost]

I'm surprised I've only had 1350 things to say. I thought I was far more loquacious than that!

 

[GregC]

I'm surprised I've only had 1350 things to say. I thought I was far more loquacious than that!

Remember, Off Topic posts aren't included in the count.

 

[Grumry]

I have no idea.

 

[guy n. cognito]

A bit sad at this point.

 

[FingerDub]

Not sure why, your 1.53 ratio isn't bad.

ok i gave in.

 

[dtripoli]

Yay!
I finally reached the elusive 2 to 1 ratio:

View attachment 1141753

Oops, I just liked your post so I've totally screwed up your ratio...sorry

 

[the harp unstrung]

I don't understand the logic behind OT posts being somehow...'less valuable'.
Seems to me the What I Learned Today, or What Kind Of Beer I'm Drinking, or What Model Of B-17 I Think Is The Coolest should be just about as 'worthy' as my next play on the Music Match,or Song Uno, or I Hate __________So Much, or (gawd forbid) Which _______ is best for Metal/Bro Country/Sunday Morning Jazz/My New Brittany Spears Tribute Project thread.

Just sayin'...

 

[guy n. cognito]

I don't understand the logic behind OT posts being somehow...'less valuable'.
Seems to me the What I Learned Today, or What Kind Of Beer I'm Drinking, or What Model Of B-17 I Think Is The Coolest should just about as 'worthy' as my next play on the Music Match,or Song Uno, or I Hate __________So Much, or (gawd forbid) Which _______ is best for Metal/Bro Country/Sunday Morning Jazz/My New Brittany Spears Tribute Project thread.

Just sayin'...

Believe it or not, we had certain members that would post things like "+1" primarily in OT, just to get their post count up. Now, we find certain members using that rule to purposefully inflate their "like ratio".

A lot of members were against likes when they were introduced, and this is why.

 

[B-line]

I strongly feel that there should be a "Dislike" option offered, and that it should be statistically consolidated with the "Likes" received.
Has this been done before?

 

[JACink]

Believe it or not, we had certain members that would post things like "+1" primarily in OT, just to get their post count up. Now, we find certain members using that rule to purposefully inflate their "like ratio".

A lot of members were against likes when they were introduced, and this is why.

Also, when a post was quoted, it didn't show "reduced" with the possibility to expand like now. It showed the whole post. So threads would fill with the same post quoted over and over again with just a "+1" beneath it. It made reading some threads very tiresome.

 

[B-line]

Also, when a post was quoted, it didn't show "reduced" with the possibility to expand like now. It showed the whole post. So threads would fill with the same post quoted over and over again with just a "+1" beneath it. It made reading some threads very tiresome.

+1

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I strongly feel that there should be a "Dislike" option offered, and that it should be statistically consolidated with the "Likes" received.
Has this been done before?

I'm on a couple of Thailand night-life forums that have implemented "reputation", where you can give a guy a dislike. (down thumb)
However, guys who weren't "in the clique" had other guys ganging up on them to knock down their reputation.
They had to then implement a X dislikes/day caveat, so that the teams of guys knocking down another guy's reputation couldn't get ahead of any likes he was receiving.

Sometimes it's very high-school-girlish in the way people pick sides & go after each other.
Once my friend Denny did a tour of Pattaya for some guys & hired a truck to drive them around. When he asked for them to pitch in for the cost of the vehicle, most of them went straight to the forum to bash him & give him dislikes.
Needless to say, Denny never sponsored any more tours to show new guys around again.

So, I guess what I'm saying is that's a whole other can of worms.