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Re: Reasonable Questions

by CheeseLord (Deacon)
on Aug 19, 2001 at 10:06 UTC ( [id://105981]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Reasonable Questions

A few comments about some of your questions:

... why do monks start to ++ or -- vote people based on their user name? Since when does someones user name make them worth listening to?</em

Someone's username doesn't make them worth listening to (although something cool like 'CheeseLord' will certainly make people notice you. :) but the reputation behind it does. And many of the higher-level people around here are at that level because they've posted a lot of good stuff, and have invested a good deal of time in this site. We respect their input and opinions because they've shared their knowledge and insight with us, and we've found it useful. And we're pretty sure that what they've just posted is going to be useful as well. As far as the new monks who don't really care and just ++ the saints, well... what can you do? I guess that's why you don't get as many votes when you start out.

A lot of the things you point out are present in any society - and as you've noted, there are real people behind each username here. It makes sense that the issues (I don't believe these to be 'problems') that are present in human societies are present here as well. A leader's views are usually respected, unless they are met with good arguments as to their flaws. That does not preclude listening to the views of the non-leaders, however. But, because of their position, they need to be more careful in what they say should they want their opinions heard. Likewise, leaders need to be careful in what they say, lest they offend too many or too much and lose their ability to have their opinions considered.

At least, that's my view of things. *shrug*

His Royal Cheeziness

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Re: Re: Reasonable Questions
by mugwumpjism (Hermit) on Aug 19, 2001 at 13:32 UTC

    You are right - CheeseLord (cool nick btw). These factors are always present in any society. However, I think you'll agree that they should be discouraged; people's statements should be evaluated on their own merit.

    I think it's funny, after I posted my opinion piece on Women Programmers, Sex, Tai Chi and Reincarnation the other day, I found a whole load of old nodes of mine being downvoted. The chatterbox client I use tells me when my nodes get downvoted, and what I was seeing was a whole bunch of parallel downvotes happening within the space of about 2 minutes, to, say - 7 articles. This happened more than 5 times, occasionally corresponding to a flame to my original post. This leads me to believe the people doing the downvoting were downvoting my nodes en masse, just because they didn't like something I said in my most recent post and perhaps felt the need to dish out more "punishment". Obviously the other slews of downvotes came from people who couldn't formulate their disgust at what I'd said into words.

    All I can say is that the etiquette here is supposed to resemble a monastery, which amongst other things means this:
    Check your Ego at the door, please.
    Do not believe what others tell you on face value.

    Common themes for most religions that call their places of worship "monastaries", no?

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