Timeline for It's not a fair fight. Why do negative opinions have so much greater weight than positive ones in Area 51?
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| Dec 6, 2021 at 5:19 | comment | added | Martin Hemsley | @Polyhat, yeah, better to focus on the positive than worry about downvotes. The proposal is valuable, we just have to find ways to get the word out there. | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 5:12 | comment | added | Polyhat | @MartinHemsley In theory, one could "game" the system by having everyone, concertedly, post their questions and vote on others' questions all at the same time--before the adversaries had had a chance to clock in and game the system in their own favor against the proposal--because that is what is happening now; we're being gamed. But I don't think fighting fire with fire has much chance of success in this case--just need to get a bigger vehicle rolling with so much support that the opponents are powerless to stop it. | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 4:15 | comment | added | Martin Hemsley | Thanks for sharing that, @Polyhat! I think the key will be for people to reach out to their networks of family, friends, et al, and encourage them to follow the site. Eventually the positive momentum will take over and we'll be on our way. | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 0:34 | comment | added | Polyhat | @MartinHemsley There's a bypass route to seeing the vote totals. We can know them. The place to look is on the reputation tab for whomever asked the question. That is how I know we have a consistent down draft of five votes for each question. I've seen the vote totals for your questions as well as for Seed Minister and myself. It takes longer--a little more clicking/vote counting, looking down through the dates--but it is possible to know the vote total for any question. I didn't realize this at first, and wish I had looked at the totals before deleting my "unpopular" questions. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 16:31 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | Well, yes, it is now. It was fairly easy to do so back when Area 51 was created and active. That is a side effect of a site essentially dying. // I reached over 700 from fairly minimal participation back in the day. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 16:28 | vote | accept | Martin Hemsley | ||
| Dec 3, 2021 at 16:28 | comment | added | Martin Hemsley | It is disproportionately and otherworldly difficult to get 1000 points in Area 51. In fact, you'd almost have to be a survivor against all odds, like the site itself. But enough said.... | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 5:49 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | Viewing vote counts is awarded at 1,000 reputation like any other site, and is probably unprotected and fetchable with a user script like on other sites too... Never tried. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 5:45 | comment | added | Martin Hemsley | If I can sneak in another quick question here, is there a certain amount of reputation required to be able to see the vote balances? This could be useful information in terms of understanding what kinds of questions are working for the site. A question with a score of 0 could have 10 positive votes and 10 negative ones which means something different from a question with a 0 that got no votes. This could be useful information in terms of understanding what kinds of questions are working for the site. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 5:38 | comment | added | Martin Hemsley | Thanks, animuson. Happy to give you a positive vote! True to it’s name, Area 51 is a mysterious site. It is a little frustrating to see the vote totals going up and down so much. I’m sure you realize this is happening more on this site than on an average CS proposal. Religion does tend to generate more differing opinions and I guess it is a good sign that people are showing interest in the questions proposed, by one way or the other. Reading between the lines, I’m not going to worry about it too much and focus more on getting the required followers. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 1:50 | history | answered | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |