On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Stacia wrote: > Another lurker here. Having been on Ravelry for a long time, I can > say unequivocally that the "agree" and "disagree" options are abused > and are often an enormous cause of strife. Every community on Ravelry > has at least one long thread about who the "phantom disagreeers" are, > and many people use the options to troll. I think using Ravelry's > system or something like it would be opening up a huge can of worms, > especially since this would be attached to personal posts in personal > journals and not just public communities. Perhaps if there was just a > way for individuals to opt out of any kind of "karma" or "webclap" > system, that would take care of the issue?
Opt-outs are always good; I think more people will be willing to opt in if there are only positive responses. That way if people want to be critical they will have to speak up and say what's on their mind, which only seems fair. **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
