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And now for something completely different...
...or as different as a damned blog can be, anyway. It started out as a project, it devolved into a chronicling of my misanthropy, rage, and occasional fits of glee. It sounds good, though, and might even make you laugh.
[insert lame gladiator joke here]
Well, cats and kittens, we've just gone live with ranked topic voting.

I'm split on this one. I know why they spent the time coding and working on this feature-- making fun, informative threads available instantly sounds like a good idea, and allowing the users to pick and choose what's featured in their community is a good idea. But I also know the users. Prommies will be all over this, people will feed other users to the proverbial lions with this, and it may just bring out the worst in people. I want to much to have faith in the devs, because they've worked so hard on this and their intentions are the best, but I feel like we may have shot ourselves in the foot with this. I feel extra-guilty saying that for a number of reasons I won't get into here, but that's my big worry.

How about all of you guys? Thumbs down and we live, or thumbs up and limbs get gnawed off?






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Druki
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commentCommented on: Mon Sep 11, 2006 @ 09:11pm
It reminds me of the avatar voting system we had once. Though nothing is at stake. And really, I can't see why prommies would complain because of that. It grants nothing whatsoever of monetary value so what reason could they possibly have to complain?

Of course, knowing some, they'd complain for the sake of complaining, but they don't count.


commentCommented on: Mon Sep 11, 2006 @ 09:32pm
I'm more worried that the prommies will use this to "win" prommie fights (like anyone ever wins those; both sides lose), or that members with "fans" will use this for malicious reasons. Sort of has the opposite effect of the intended community-building, that does.



fubenkunai
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Artess
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commentCommented on: Wed Sep 13, 2006 @ 04:06am
Yeah, I see what you mean, hun. That putrid thread about the guy laughing at the 9/11 slideshow has been ranked in the top for the second day now. Not good at all. sad


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