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Post by
Smaragd
With some contributors making many comments, it's a bit hard to keep a nice overview over what's rated up or down. Especially if you've written something a year ago, and suddenly a patch makes the comment invalid and people start rating it down for false info.
It would be nice with some sort of overview that shows all your recently recieved feedback. E.g. for 1 week back. Positive feedback might not be necessary to see, but it would be very helpful for negative feedback. It would send contributors an easy-to-spot signal that they should either delete a comment, or edit it in a way so that it becomes correct for what has been changed since the comment was posted.
Just like a comment log for the past week:
<date> <pageB> <comment ...> <-1>
<date> <pageA> <comment ...> <+1>
<date> <pageA> <comment ...> <-1>
<date> <pageA> <comment ...> <+1>
Post by
Malgayne
I can see the value of a feature like this, but I can also see the danger--I tend to feel that people give too much thought to whether their comments are rated up or down as it is. Just today someone sent me an email asking why their comments had been purged, because they didn't have anything inappropriate in them. They admitted that their comments weren't really informative either, they were "just comments".
At this point I'd prefer if the users submitted their comments and then stopped worrying. Perhaps that's impossible, but I still feel like I should encourage it.
Post by
Smaragd
Well, the main point for adding it is that if a commend for some reason IS rated down, it will be purged. If people could see that a specific comment is suddenly rated a lot down, they could hopefully fix it with editing it. In worst case (lazy) scenarios they could delete it to prevent it from hurting their overall reputation, though this isn't my main thought about the subject. In my case, it would be a huge timesaver. I tend to skim through my comments now and then to see if something has recieved 0 or less, but I couldn't tell if something with a lot of positive feedback would suddenly start getting negative feedback. Though, I expect it's the low rated ones that are the most vulnerable to downratings by other unknowledgable users.
If you want to not keep the ratings in main focus, this could perhaps not be the first thing a user would see on their userpage. It could just be another tab to check from time to time after noticing excessive change in ratings.
A simple example of where it might be used:
Patch 2.3.0
A comment on <Random Boss>
"His add can be sheeped."
Patch 2.3.1 makes the add unsheepable.
The comment starts to recieve negative ratings. User investigates and edits.
"His add cannot be sheeped as of patch 2.3.1."
Post by
pelf
In the spirit of diligent posters willing/wanting to correct something that becomes an error because of a change in the game if they were only able to find that post they made 6 months ago and forgot -- I think
something
like this would be nice.
Post by
Skyfire
Hmm, I find myself agreeing with this idea... Though I similarly see Malgayne's point.
Perhaps, make it a separate tab in the user profiles, or possibly a column in the current tab for comments, and include a prominent link somewhere to our commenting guide. Malgayne, part of the reason you get emails on downrating, I think, is that people don't really have a link looking them in the face saying "Your comment may have been downrated because of x, y, and z." While that link is there for the people in the comment box, every link counts in this case, I think. Education is the key, of course.
Post by
17744
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Skyfire
Course, you run the risk of it all getting rather recursive and confusing, but 'tis just an idea. :)
Or of the "comment feedback" becoming abusive, in which case, Mal gets more emails. Though I would hope that would be fairly rare...
Post by
17744
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
pelf
I think we may be on to something interesting.
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