Voter Identifier...

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omg thats a dumb idea coz ppl would just stop voting....duh!

Yeah I think that there should be a voter indentification thing so the writers can ask why they were given that vote and get some feed back and stuff like that.

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/discussion/topic.html?topic_id=9606

is the thread that Lydia mentioned

votes should be confidentual or members ill b hazed on why they voted sumthing less then a 4, ent it but it will happen and wat bout ppl that arent members? not everything shud b reveald, we shud still hav a lil privacy

I think this is a bad idea as it would without a doubt lead to people being harassed concerning the votes they gave people. Most folk in here can't handle comments that don't meet with their lofty estimations of their poems, how would they react if they were given a 1 and knew the name of the person who did it?

Nah.

There's already a thread about this somewhere... The link is up there a bit...

Personally, I think that's a bad idea. Then, when someone votes a 5 on your poem, that would make you feel obliged to vote 5 on theres, and vise versa. Same thing with 1s. If someone votes a 1 or 2 on one of your poems, that would result in revenge voting...

~Ciao Lipton

I think it's a bad idea for all the reasons people have already stated.

But tell me if I'm wrong, but don't the mods or at least the administrators already have a way to find out who left the bad votes?

mods do not, admins do

bad idea because than people will be afriad to vote less than a 5 in fear of getting bad votes back.

i agree with lisa marie. i've found if you vote low, if i do that and leave a comment some people come back and just give all yours low votes. some people just wouldn't handle it maturely.

isn't there already some sort of system in place which gets rid of people who continually vote low? or is that memory a figment of my imagination?!

i think there should also be a system to punish the people who ALWAYS vote 5s, not just those who ALWAYS vote 1s.

but hey, we're human's so we can never make this sort of stuff PERFECT ... but, you know we can keep trying :)

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cos if you have low votes people dont bother reading your stuff ... duh
some people do it just t spite you, or let there poem rise to the top by low voting everyone elses ... if i write a bad poem, i dont mind a 1 but not if it's just them being prats.

James, you explain your point very well, but it just wouldn't work in here.

All you have to do if you don't believe me, is go have a look at all the posts from poets complaining about some such comment, or all the low votes they keep getting.

Why should each person have to justify voting 1 on a poem, because thats what will happen if this idea gets implemented.

If it were up to me the voting system would be abolished...it's a rediculous measure of each poets skill to be judged in numbers by other poets.

I never vote, i only comment.

i think the voting system should just be shut down. and the poetry contest. i think it would be better if there was a way for people to submit their work and people just vote on those ones.

i was talking about specific poets who have been on here doing this, not in general. and fyi, my typing was bad that day cos my hand was jammed in the door so u know i could not be bothered to type properly.
i respect people's decision if they don't like my poem. however, a few months back i had an incident where the person was just being spiteful. and i'm not the only one to witness that sort of behaviour.

i like the voting system, i enjoy voting fairly. i think it should remain, and so should the contest. on the whole most people are fair ... there are just the few who ruin it. get rid of them, not the system.

Not enough people vote for me any way lol. but besides that, if you saw that someone gave u a low rate, u would retaliate by doing the same to them and this isnt what the site should be about. just my oppinion.
Ben

No, see i wouldn't do that even if they were doing it in spite. i left school over a year ago, i don't intend to act as if i'm still there if you get what i mean.

like i said before, the voting system is great, it shouldn't change: unless you are to expect every person on this site to be mature about it

(which i don't think is very likely ...)

to killer: i do think the voter system should just be shut down. when i said people submit their specific poems to be voted, i was reffering to the poetry contest. so that way there is still a contest but no voting on all the other poems.

James,

I find your post slightly insulting as you start off by stating that anyone who does not agree with you is baised or ignorant. Thats not a very insightful manner to begin a message in which you wish people reading to absorb your opinions.

As it happens i agree with you on the subject of abolishing the current ratings system. However, i do not believe replacing it with a judges panel, no matter how "educated" they are would be a logical idea. It's still just the opinions of individuals, even if they would be levelled out by the group consensus.

It is a historical fact that large groups of people have, in unison under the name of reason made grevious errors in judgement. I do not mean to be so dramatic, but what would happen if your preposed group wrongly pronounced a poem with a lesser rating then the author believed, and they reacted badly and ceased to write? An extreme example perhaps, but one i feel strongly about.

Let us all as fellow bards in training help each other along the way with thoughts and impressions through the channel of comments, but ANY form of ratings or prizes or compitition is in my mind just plain wrong.

Kevin Alexander Murray

POET OF THE COMA BLACK GUILD.

actually, i fully agree with your idea now i thought about it. voter identifier gets the thumbs up from me :) cos i like voting and don't want that taken away, and as i always vote fair, i have nothing to hide.

peace x x x x

Again, why must low votes be justified, but not high ones?

~Ciao Lipton

it's not a matter if you vote fair or not. because if you vote a poem lets say a 3 because it deserved a 3. and then that person will get mad because they dont think it deserves a 3 and so they go back to your poem and give it a bad vote just because they are pissed you voted theirs a 3.

I agree with lisa marie... the voting system should be removed all together...

I love the idea and I support it very much

Indeed Rohit, i must be in accordance with my fellow poet Mr Daron Starr. Who was fighting? Did you see any anger or gross direspect? We did of course disagree, but it was done in an adult manner, and there certainly were no hard feelings on my part, and i hope it is safe to assume, on the part of my learnered friend, Mr Starr.

Careful of your assumptions Sir.

{ i love talking posh...hee hee.]

i think all votes shud be identified, like comments now have to be, well have been for a while, i think votes should be too. the voting will become fairer i believe. its too easy for anyone to just rubbish loads of stuff without signing in, so like the comments, we needs names

peace x

However, Silent Misery, have you not read the posts in this topic?

There are A LOT of immature people on the site. Having said that, this is what would happen:
1) People would vote 1 just because they don't like the person.
2) They are then identified
3) The person that recieved the 1 vote will get angry, and will revenge vote.

It is inevitable.

Let's just leave the indentifying up to Janis and co.

~Ciao Lipton

I might ask a question of everyone who wants the voting system to either continue, or become identified.

Do you feel comfortable in your knowledge of all the poetic structures, classic styles, flows, slangs, historical referenfes etc to be able to slap a simple numerical rating on every poem you read? I mean i'm smart enough guy and i couldn't in good conscience sum up someones written creation with a simple number. It's just not fair to me.

Comments i'm down with for sure....but 1-5 ratings for such complex and varied things are poems, when you don't even know the person? Weird.