preventing downvote abuse: Add a small rep penalty for downvoting Community Center Meta DaniWeb by JugglerDrummer Would you downvote someone for no reason if you lost a bit of your own rep doing it? Probably not. This would keep you only downvoting posts you really think deserve it, and help prevent downvote abuse. What are you thoughts? Re: -2106714 downvote bug? Community Center Meta DaniWeb by rproffitt Now with more downvotes? I clicked on the downvote and get this: http://i.imgur.com/MMMDBT3.png Wow, -4213433 downvotes. Click it agan and bock to-2106714 downvotes. It's not a severe bug. Just one of those odd things. And appears repeatable. Find any post with say 0 or 1 downvotes and try it. Re: preventing downvote abuse: Add a small rep penalty for downvoting Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani The purpose of the voting system is so that anyone can give one point up or one point down ... irrelevant of how many posts they have, how much reputation they have, how long they've been a member on DaniWeb, etc. The purpose of it is so that the person giving the vote doesn't have to be afraid to go one way or the other for any reason, and that's … Voting buttons don't work on iOS Programming Web Development by Dani … = $(this).closest('div.votes').find('div.downvote'); if (downvote.hasClass('downvote-undo')) { downvote.removeClass('downvote-undo'); } else { $(this).toggleClass('upvote-undo'); } } else… How to keep track of things with prototype? Programming Web Development by steveissuperman …. Here's the Ajax I'm using for a downvote: [code] function downVote(id) { var url = 'vote.php'; var pars = 'id=' + id…($_COOKIE['downvote_'.$row['ID']])) { print 'id="" onclick="downVote(' . $row['ID'] . ')"'; } else { print 'id="voted" '; } ?>… annoying PM Community Center Meta DaniWeb by IIM … 24 hours in this forum to reply and neither i downvote without giving reasons. > "the above quote is taken…; doesn't seem to be much of a reason to downvote this post. > > Secondly,i also want to know… the reason for downvote,not only some persons can ask this question > The… Reversing your vote doesn't remove the rep given Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Ketsuekiame When you upvote or downvote someone with a comment, if you reverse your vote it … my case, I accidentally upvoted someone because I hovered the downvote button and then I [must have] passed over the upvote… upvote score I accidentally awarded them. It did apply my downvote rep subtraction, but this person now has 9 points more… Re: Voting/Activity Bug Community Center Meta DaniWeb by IIM Yes deception,there are two bugs. 1) It is not applying correct reputation point. 2) On undo of upvote point,count of total upvote/downvote(i am not sure of upvote but it is there for downvote) is not changing as it should.Also list of upvote/downvote then is not showing correct.It will show list after the undo is done. Re: Voting/Activity Bug Community Center Meta DaniWeb by deceptikon …; 2) On undo of upvote point,count of total upvote/downvote(i am not sure of upvote but it is there… for downvote) is not changing as it should.Also list of upvote…/downvote then is not showing correct.It will show list after … Voting/Activity Bug Community Center Meta DaniWeb by IIM There is another bug with activity point,Upvote,downvote. Whenever any person votes and then undo vote ,it is …treated as vote (shows in upvote and downvote of that person) with vote count corrected(i.e.,if… Re: Voting/Activity Bug Community Center Meta DaniWeb by IIM Yes @mvmalderen is right.If you downvote and then undo downvote ,then you cannot see the actual posts that were downvoted.I forgot to mention this. Re: Voting/Activity Bug Community Center Meta DaniWeb by IIM @dani still bug is there.After i downvote any post and undo my vote ,i cannot see any downvoted post of that member.Even count of downvote not decreasing on undo. did i make some enemies here overnight or what ? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by somjit{} … was at 6. it hasnt been 8 hours , and my downvote counter rockets upto 27! all with just 2 members who… Re: Voting/Activity Bug Community Center Meta DaniWeb by tux4life …, and I know it hasn't been downvoted because my downvote count hasn't changed. In fact I even noticed that… Re: Change in Downvoting Community Center Meta DaniWeb by IIM … then they must first add comment to have option to downvote. THATS WHAT I AM SUGGESTING. because people just come and… downvote without helping the post creator.So in any way post … Re: Change in Downvoting Community Center Meta DaniWeb by stultuske IIM: > because people just come and downvote without helping the post creator just because you post in …, but since I've posted in it, I can now downvote. the only real difference is that now you have pretty… Re: Change in Downvoting Community Center Meta DaniWeb by deceptikon … someone to post in a thread before being allowed to downvote is just asking for valueless posts. The assumption that posting… for the sake of downvote rights would result in something that helps the OP is… Re: did i make some enemies here overnight or what ? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by happygeek … downvoted) someone immature and they have responded by hitting the downvote button a few times. I Re: did i make some enemies here overnight or what ? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by somjit{} … , and read "his" private message. ( yes , i did downvote two people last night with a comment , i doubt one… Re: did i make some enemies here overnight or what ? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by somjit{} I assume that there's a frequency based check where the time period is one day. If its not too much code , how about adding a nested check with a smaller time-period of one or two minutes or so ? That would check if a user is going on a downvote spree. New Bug :) Community Center by Sahil89 I think its a bug. When you up vote a post it updates to +1. But when you remove your vote by makin it 0. It dont reverse the vote. But if you downvote again it goes to -1. But you cant make it to zero. So if you accidently up/down vote any post you dont have any option. Re: New Bug :) Community Center by Dani I was just able to successfully upvote, then reverse it, then downvote, then reverse your post. Reputation changes are now few and far between Community Center by DavidKroukamp …' and 'downward arrow' that both adds/decreases rep and upvote/downvote counter? why seperate it into 2 different sections? i.e… Re: Reputation changes are now few and far between Community Center by Dani …' and 'downward arrow' that both adds/decreases rep and upvote/downvote counter? It was never like this. Just clicking on the… Re: Reputation changes are now few and far between Community Center by DavidKroukamp LOL, Hmmm seems my memory is slipping! A sign of old age, but thanks I see now, though I still do think having a single way to upvote and downvote would be better (regardless of a comment), but in the land of the dead you play dead (I guess) :) How to Contact Moderators Community Center Meta DaniWeb by geniusvishal … forum not getting moderated? It is because see anyone could downvote one's thread without any reason.. It should get moderated… System of upvotes: Suggestion Community Center Meta DaniWeb by deltascrow … has been voted on twice, one up-vote and one-downvote. In such a case, in my member profile, number of… Re: System of upvotes: Suggestion Community Center Meta DaniWeb by JorgeM > I think posts with a net rating of zero should not be considered in the overall posting quality I assume that this has not been implemented because if it was in place, anyone who receives a downvote can simply register with a new account and upvote the downvoted post. It would be an easy way to get to 100% using this process. Re: System of upvotes: Suggestion Community Center Meta DaniWeb by deltascrow What about the second question? And it isn't as if a post is going to receive only a single downvote, sometimes posts receive multiple ones. The pros outweight the cons, IMO. Re: System of upvotes: Suggestion Community Center Meta DaniWeb by deltascrow Umm, I think you should downvote a post, and then make someone else upvote it. It won't show in either place, "Buttons voted up" or down. :S Or seriously, idk. I just reported a bug.