Better forum

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Dec 5 22:11:59 PST 2012


On 12/6/2012 4:47 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> What's the voting supposed to do? What are you voting on? Whatever it is, it
> can't have any effect beyond those who use the web interface, so unless it's
> specifically something that only affects you account, I don't see how it could
> really work.

Also, voting systems are easily manipulated and abused. Fixing that 
requires, well, a larger investment in thinking about it, human 
moderation, etc.

Doesn't seem worth it, to me.

I wouldn't underestimate the ongoing effort forums like reddit and 
hackernews put into voting systems.



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