Karma change reasons now enabled

b/Website Talk publicado por u/Dream of Omnimaga April 26, 2016, 01:38:40 AM

Karma change reasons now enabled

So in order to prevent accidental post down-voting and discourage suspicious down-votes, I have finally caved in and decided to enable karma reasons, so now when you click "Like" or "Flag as abusive", you will be asked why you want to up-vote or down-vote the post.

We don't really mind if you give no reason for "likes", since "like" is self-explanatory (we recommend replying with a post to comment rather than just clicking the button, though). But for "flag as abusive" down-votes, you have to give a valid one (there is also a warning that appears on the page to warn you that you're about to flag someone's posts, just in case you mis-clicked).

Sorry for the annoyances this might cause.

Last Edit: April 26, 2016, 01:41:21 AM by DJ Omnimaga

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u/CVSoft April 26, 2016, 01:47:13 AM

I've been waiting for this feature for quite a while.

u/Dream of Omnimaga April 26, 2016, 01:53:03 AM

Lol CVSoft. Now you need to make a walrus sprite of this guy,

u/aetios April 26, 2016, 09:38:14 AM

I seem to have missed this change, but entirely support it.

u/Yuki April 26, 2016, 12:08:45 PM

Archer walrii? welp.

Anyway, yeah, the number of times people accidentally downvoted posts and asked the staff how to fix this and we were like, yeah how do we fix this? Good move here, that's how it should had been done.

u/Dream of Omnimaga April 26, 2016, 01:26:30 PM

Yeah the issue is accodental downvotes have been increasing over the time, even after the site theme improvements to reduce risks of it happening, and some people suggested enabling voting reasons a few time before. Doing so seemed to be the only solution.

u/GalacticPirate May 06, 2016, 12:28:41 PM

Errr... Is it normal that we also have to precise a reason when we are upvoting ?

u/aetios May 06, 2016, 12:53:50 PM

Yeah, that's the way it works. We'd disable it but it's either all on or all off. I usually put something funny in it when I upvote.

u/Dream of Omnimaga May 06, 2016, 02:15:49 PM

Quote from: STV on May 06, 2016, 12:28:41 PM
Errr... Is it normal that we also have to precise a reason when we are upvoting ?

We did not want that. But the karma system has no option to disable reasons just for upvoting. For upvoting just enter gibberish like ++ or gsdrfhrehfffdf