Maybe I haven't been paying attention, or haven't been spending time in the same threads as you, but I don't see rapid submission of votes as being a serious problem of abuse that needs a solution.
I especially don't see a problem with people doing rapid downvotes, and even if there was a lot of this going on, I don't agree that the people doing it should be "punished". As often as not, someone who decides to downvote a node is able to make that decision in a very short time.
I also do not see any point in "punishing" someone because their decision to downvote a node happens to disagree with some larger number of monks, no matter how long it takes this person to make this decision.
I don't know whether anyone engages in "robot voting" (i.e. voting on nodes, either up or down, without even putting them on display, simply to get the XP from voting), and if they do, well, maybe that had some value for them as a programming exercise, but I don't see how it impacts on (detracts from) the value that I personally get from reading whole threads, and voting on nodes that are either egregious or inspiring.
If you have specific examples where you believe the value of the Monastery (or the value of your experience here) has been diminished by certain voting practices, go ahead and point those out. Maybe others can suggest different ways of repairing the problem. So far, I just have not seen the problem. | [reply] |
"disregard english people posting from another countries(as their number is probably little)".
I think you are deluded if you think that this is a small number there is a very large contingent of Monks in Asia and the Far East.
What then would be the advantage of your modified system?
How would it benefit the Monastery and who in particular do you think it would help?
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there is a very large contingent of Monks in Asia and the Far East. And don't forget us in Europe who are not native English speakers. Actually English as a mother tongue is a minority in Europe.
CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James
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punishing ... punished. ... punish
I favor reward over punishment.
That said, how much delay do you allow between a glance and getting the idea?
How would you reliably judge a perception being faked? It is amazing how skilled people just skim pages and
pages of code, identify smelly areas and, on a second glance, spot the bug. I have seen that with a bug I was
unable to locate (wrote it myself) and a colleague getting it in a matter of seconds; had the same experience
with code others wrote (not my bugs :-)
--shmem
_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ /
/\_¯/(q /
---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}
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