Comment voting - is there any sense or point to it?

virtual81 on 06/12/2016 - 19:40

A few recent posts of mine got 'Comment score below threshold' and i'm at a loss to understand why.
Is there something i'm totally missing, or are comment votes really pointless?

I'd have thought that a neg on a comment would fit if the comment added no useful discussion, information or relevance to the deal, or as a way to bury a comment attacking another user or comment without good reason.

Recent example was i me querying why a free sim card was a deal as i'd never paid for one in the past and thought that to be common practice.
Keep in mind it was a genuine query, and i had NOT negged the deal.
A completely legitimate question i thought, yet i return to find it negged 19 times.

So after crying for an hour and getting a hug from mom i came here to rant….. no not really i don't care that much.

My real concern given how widespread and vicious the practise is, how many useful questions and comments are missed because they have been needlessly negged below threshold?

I think it's something that could use some looking at, maybe similar rules should apply to the comments as they do to the deals, and thus people would need a good reason to neg a post.

Just some thoughts.
Me, personally, would just hate to miss usefull posts… thats all.

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  • tomsco on 06/12/2016 - 19:49
    +2

    I think it's a bit of a pack mentality.

    • virtual81 on 09/01/2017 - 00:58

      After reading some of the replies to this post 1 month on it certainly appears so.
      Welcome to 2016/17 where an ordinary Joe can't ask an ordinary question on the internet without being hung drawn and quartered.

  • dogboy on 06/12/2016 - 20:02
    -5

    Once one Apple user downvotes, they all jump on the bandwagon. Like sitting on public transport and seeing all the fat unhealthy people mesmerised by Candy Crush or similar. Just mindless drones without any free thought or drive to improve themselves.

  • Clear on 06/12/2016 - 20:09
    +2

    So many people come in here and shit talk on deals all the time. It's no surprise that people take it as passive aggressiveness and downvote. Particularly when you get those with 0 posts and 0 votes on deals doing it.

  • onetwothreefour on 06/12/2016 - 20:44
    +7

    I usually only read the comments with lots of up or down votes.

  • [Deactivated] on 06/12/2016 - 20:45
    +1

    haters gonna hate yo!

  • Diji1 on 06/12/2016 - 21:11
    +1

    It adds to the sense of drama that the site encourages!

  • havebeerbelywillsumo on 06/12/2016 - 21:17
    +1

    It does mean that (a) someone at least read your comment (that does NOT mean comprehension) (b) valued the comment enough (even if the value was a negative emotion) to act (yes it doesn't take much to click but still).

    So pat yourself on the back and, far, far more important, move on. What's the olde saying, "there's nothing so queer as folk".

  • [Deactivated] on 06/12/2016 - 21:39

    the voting system on OzBargain honestly stinks. I'm glad that there are no cumulative scores, so we don't have vote wagging contest but Neg votes being so holy for deals gets in the way of sharing red herrings with other members

  • Ryanek on 06/12/2016 - 21:47
    +1

    Validation.

  • endotherm on 07/12/2016 - 00:32

    Sometimes it might be the tone of your comment or the way it was phrased. Perhaps the question was asked immediately after someone else asked the same/similar question, or it was already answered. Your reply would need to be looked at with respect to the rest of the thread.

  • spackbace on 07/12/2016 - 00:38
    +5

    On the bar down the bottom there's an option to view or hide Hidden comments. I always have them shown, always good to see the good and bad lol

    Oh and I guess basically when someone asks 'what's the deal?' on a post that hits the front page, it's not gonna end well ;)

    You've been around since 2010, I'm surprised you're asking this now

  • rompastompa on 07/12/2016 - 01:04
    +3

    You could have rephrased your question better.

    If you were to ask something like:

    "What is the best way to use these sims?"
    "Do you get these for having a spare sim to sign up to extra free stuff?"
    "Is this the ozbargainer way of getting the best mobile prepaid plan?"

    Any other more specific questions, rather than 'I've never paid for a sim card as far as i can remember. Anyone able to explain how this is a deal?'

    PainToad likely led to the majority of your negative votes with his justified statement. You asked a simple question, they gave a simple answer.

    You may have been genuine, but the trolls will act the same way. Do not take these things personal, we cannot see if your motive is true. If you're going to ask a question, be clear and concise.

    • virtual81 on 09/01/2017 - 01:05
      -2

      The questions you suggest don't cover my query.

      Imagine you're me.
      - You've been using various mobile services for 15+ years
      - In that time you have never paid for a sim card.
      - You have never used prepaid
      - You are unaware that paying for a sim card is a 'thing'

      Doing my own research after the fact it appears now that paying for a sim card is a thing for prepaid services.
      I had no way of knowing this at the time.

      Instead of the questions you suggested, maybe people could have replied differently to what was a completely legitimate question.

      Instead the 'pack' just hit the neg button and move on.

      Lesson learned - Hard to come by intelligent life here.

  • payton on 06/01/2017 - 22:26

    OP, I think you'll find the comments that got negged are one of these types:

    • incorrect/misleading statements
    • comments made to bait for a response
    • topics that have been asked so many times and the commenter was too lazy to use an ounce of their brain - the answer is either already posted in earlier comments or even in the Deal Description
    • virtual81 on 09/01/2017 - 01:00

      No
      No
      And nope.

      It was a genuine question with context.

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