RIP Voting Feature

[Malee]

@Sweep_the_Leg

@rawraw

What didnt work about it?

In the CFA forums, there were instances of trolls downvoting legit answers to serious, test-related questions. That’s obviously unacceptable since that’s why this forum exists in the first place.

Here in the WC it didn’t work as intended for several reasons, but - and this is solely my opinion - we’re not a large enough community to support a voting feature. People were way too liberal with the downvoting and very few people bothered to ever upvote. The result were a lot of posts with one or two downvotes for seemingly no reason. That sort of negativity just isn’t very fun. And real trolls/spammers rarely received enough downvotes to have their comment hidden, so the self-moderating aspect of the feature didn’t pan out either.

Oh well. It was worth a shot.

As a card carrying liberal, I can attest there is nothing liberal about the Water Cooler.

[CEO10K-DAY]

@Malee

@Sweep_the_Leg

@rawraw

What didnt work about it?

In the CFA forums, there were instances of trolls downvoting legit answers to serious, test-related questions. That’s obviously unacceptable since that’s why this forum exists in the first place.

Here in the WC it didn’t work as intended for several reasons, but - and this is solely my opinion - we’re not a large enough community to support a voting feature. People were way too liberal with the downvoting and very few people bothered to ever upvote. The result were a lot of posts with one or two downvotes for seemingly no reason. That sort of negativity just isn’t very fun. And real trolls/spammers rarely received enough downvotes to have their comment hidden, so the self-moderating aspect of the feature didn’t pan out either.

Oh well. It was worth a shot.

As a card carrying liberal, I can attest there is nothing liberal about the Water Cooler.

Uuuuuh, that’s not what he means.

[Matt_Likes_Analysis]

@Black_Swan

9/13/18

@Matt_Likes_Analysis

so what’s everybody’s over/under on the upvote/downvote. i’m saying its quashed in 3 months. anyone else care to guess?

@Sweep_the_Leg

I’ve always thought it would add great value to the CFA forums. Help OPs find the best answers to their questions through upvotes. Bad or misleading answers get downvoted.

You have to remember, Chad doesn’t really care about the WC (it’s pretty much hidden now anyways). We can complain about something all we want but we don’t drive any ad revenue his way so he’s not going to keep changing the forum features because some people will bi t ch about their overall karma score.

How young and naive you were then STL.

https://www.analystforum.com/comment/91841603#comment-91841603

i called it but didn’t account for STL’s hubris. shouldn’t have bought the 3 month options.

[frankybarnes]

It’s sad that you all couldn’t even handle a simple karma feature.

[hpracing007]

@frankybarnes

It’s sad that you all couldn’t even handle a simple karma feature.

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[Black_Swan]

I miss seeing all my upvotes tbh.

[hpracing007]

I could have sworn turd earned his upvotes, no one on here was as woke as he was…

[blackomen]

It works on Reddit, why not here?

[Sweep_the_Leg]

@And_Then_I_Was_Right

I used my “free market” voting ability, granted by “liberterian” mod STL, in order to send votes higher for Turd and the Stripper while lower for STL and Ohai… which by my estimation would likely trigger authoritarian STL to show his true self.

In summary, I manipulated an attempt to manipulate, rendering the whole mess nil.

I’m not sure what that means or what it is you think I do here.

[king_kong]

You have way too much time on your hands, PA.

[GorillaNerd]

@And_Then_I_Was_Right

@Black_Swan

I miss seeing all my upvotes tbh.

You’re welcome!

I used my “free market” voting ability, granted by “liberterian” mod STL, in order to send votes higher for Turd and the Stripper while lower for STL and Ohai…which by my estimation would likely trigger authoritarian STL to show his true self. For you, I couldn’t really calculate which way would be more infuriating to the establishment, so I decided to be nice and mass historical upvote you…but not as much as Turd. Turd had to come out the most liked poster in AF history, to show the utter stupidity of the voting feature.

In summary, I manipulated an attempt to manipulate, rendering the whole mess nil.

bro why couldnt you throw a lil love to me.

[CEO10K-DAY]

The rep system on bodybuilding.com is the best way to implement something like this.

We should reintroduce it on a system like this:

1. A numbers based format. Where the mods (STL) have 100,000x the rep power that we do (to start). 2. Whatever your number is, is the number of visible points you can add/subtract from someone else counter 3. After you rep one individual you will have to wait at least 7 days before you can rep that same individual.

Most likely still to fail though.

[Sweep_the_Leg]

If at first you don’t succeed, give up. We tried our best and failed miserably.

[CSI300]

You did a fine service to the free internet, thank you for your contribution.

Kisses badger-man!!

[CEO10K-DAY]

@And_Then_I_Was_Right

@CEO10K-DAY

The rep system on bodybuilding.com is the best way to implement something like this.

Still nope. That system promotes a mob of meatheads who just downvote correct nutritional analysis in favor of industry propaganda. Well, that of course is the goal, so the system “works.”

You wot mate?

are you even aware?

[Sweep_the_Leg]

@CSI300

You did a fine service to the free internet, thank you for your contribution.

Kisses badger-man!!

So you’re what happens when PA and palantir have a kid. Interesting.

[GorillaNerd]

@And_Then_I_Was_Right

@Nerdyblop

bro why couldnt you throw a lil love to me.

Sorry, I mass historically downvoted you. You were actually one of the main targets, but not for the strategy of bringing down AF’s manipulative social control system, rather because it’s a forum of finance professionals and you can’t form a basic English sentence.

Haha! I lowkey love you! No homo! Can you upvote me now?

Also most millennials type like me in messages. You persecute me when in fact you should persecute yourself for not Keeping Up With The Kardashians!

get edumacated:

https://www.bustle.com/p/this-viral-tweet-about-millennial-language-demonstrates-all-syntax-tonal-shifts-millennials-have-developed-for-the-written-word-8430133

[GorillaNerd]

maybe they did it because they knew they could fly.

But that’s why birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

https://youtu.be/5z4zFI-eQdo

but quite honestly. if everyone is doing something, imma do it too.

if you were lemming, and your family jumped of a cliff. you are telling me you would not follow them?

If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied Illuminate the "No"s on their Vacancy signs If there’s no one beside you when your soul embarks Then I’ll follow you into the dark

https://youtu.be/NDHY1D0tKRA?t=48

[CEO10K-DAY]

@Nerdyblop

if you were - a - lemming, and your family jumped of a cliff. you are telling me you would not follow them?

That’s exactly what the did in that movie “midsommar” that just came out. Killing themselves is all they’ve ever known, so they want to do it.

It was without a doubt the stupidest movie I’ve ever seen. I was super high too. Which is weird. How do make a movie so bad stoned people don’t even like it?

[CSI300]

@Sweep_the_Leg

@CSI300

You did a fine service to the free internet, thank you for your contribution.

Kisses badger-man!!

So you’re what happens when PA and palantir have a kid. Interesting.

Why have so many posts been deleted on this thread? Got something to hide?