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Negative Votes Changes - Commenting is now Required

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scotty on 24/02/2008 - 21:14

Negative votes have always been controversial here at OzBargain, and I am making a new change again and hopefully the situation will get better this time. This change is derived from a small discussion from this deal post (somewhere in the middle when ozpete raised the issue on negative votes), and I thought it was a good idea so I coded the change.

Basically,

  • Now you need to have at least one comment in the deal to cast negative vote against it.
  • One-liner comment is no longer required as you would have written a comment explaining your action.

Hopefully it will encourage members to fully explain why negative votes are given.

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POWERevolution on 24/02/2008 - 21:48

Good idea

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bevisaurus on 24/02/2008 - 23:32

Great change!

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moo on 25/02/2008 - 07:59

At least now there will be justification behind negative voting :) Cheers Scott.

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JeffreyM on 25/02/2008 - 15:02

moo - ever since the comments part of negative voting has been launched most of the time there is justification behind a negative vote.

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moo on 25/02/2008 - 23:51

Ah yes. I have misread the post, sorry…I must be getting old sigh

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ozpete on 25/02/2008 - 10:49

Scott- nice change and fast action as well - Lets see how it goes - at least we will have some constructive comments on why a deal isn’t always well received, and a way someone can reply to that comment

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JeffreyM on 25/02/2008 - 15:51

ozpete - I agree about the constructive comments bit, but someone has always been able to reply to someone else who has made a negative vote but choose not to that’s why no they have to.

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JeffreyM on 25/02/2008 - 15:52

I think this is a good idea, but there still should be the comment box, so that when you click on the votes tab - you’ll know why that user has voted negative without having to go to another page.

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JeffreyM on 25/02/2008 - 15:59

Also I found a new feature that Scotty has added, if you click on any member then click on their picture & you head into their page & click on “Voted Deals” - it tells you the deals that the member has voted for.

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John on 25/02/2008 - 16:03

Good one!

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MiCCAS on 07/03/2008 - 22:46

Smart idea!!

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Matejay on 12/09/2008 - 12:43

Expired! :(

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JenniM on 26/10/2008 - 09:13

Makes you want to stop putting your coupons and findings up when people are nasty in their comments when all you are trying to do is share something you found to be a bargin :(

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duke9 on 29/10/2008 - 18:23

never buy from them again

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dougie on 02/12/2008 - 11:26

Doesn’t work anymore