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  • BrooklynDawgBrooklynDawg Posts: 822 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @CharlestowneDawg said:
    Serious question....are there penalties to an account for downvotes or vice versa for upvotes? I'm just trying to understand why this is a such consistent issue and why people care so much?

    Yes, DV go against your point average here.

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  • donmdonm Posts: 10,241 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @BrooklynDawg said:

    @donm said:

    @BrooklynDawg said:
    We need guidelines for these down votes. A lot of you are either being sensitive or trolls, but the amount of down votes I see on some is ridicules. I joined the forum because I saw open minded DAWG fans enjoying healthy debates without their egos getting bruised. Now it seems this forum is starting to resemble the other sites in their pettiness. I'm not saying everything should be wrapped in bubble wrap and nobody touches the down vote, but be more objective. Trolls, other fans being extremely negative, and self promotions I feel is all warranted for down votes, flags, and off topics. If we are just debating and we are going back and forth save the down vote. Please don't turn this site into an ego fest. We are here for the DAWGS.

    It's clear, at least to me, that there are a variety of reasons why folks use the DV. I don't belong to any other forums than this one. Do others have a "I disagree with you" button? Maybe the use of the button for various reasons suggests we need various buttons?

    Personally, I use the DV when I believe someone is rude or intentionally hurtful. Calling some one dumb, or an idiot or worse, can get my finger headed toward the DV button. The most recent DV I used was for someone calling someone else a pr!ck. Obviously, my own personal values/morals/ethics come into play here. I don't recall ever using DV to signal simple disagreement with someone's opinion. I do think a study of DV patterns would show they decline once football gets here, at least as long as the Dawgs are winning a lot.

    I try to steer away from the same things, if you can't say something nice... I don't see a disagree button for other sites. I quit them all. But I think should have that feature here. That will stop some of the unnessary mess we deal with. That will leave a lot of people's point average alone, too.

    Point average? What is that? What does one get points for? Are they redeemable for anything?

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  • christopheruleschristopherules Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Something I agree with all of y’all is?
    GO DAWGS!!!

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  • BrooklynDawgBrooklynDawg Posts: 822 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @sauceddawg said:

    it's starting to turn into Reddit.

    Its not that bad yet. Ppl here don't think theyre actual analysts/reporters over here

    True, but we are now getting the ego hounds that believe their opinion is gospel and if we go against it then we are the devil.

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  • BrooklynDawgBrooklynDawg Posts: 822 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @donm said:

    @BrooklynDawg said:

    @donm said:

    @BrooklynDawg said:
    We need guidelines for these down votes. A lot of you are either being sensitive or trolls, but the amount of down votes I see on some is ridicules. I joined the forum because I saw open minded DAWG fans enjoying healthy debates without their egos getting bruised. Now it seems this forum is starting to resemble the other sites in their pettiness. I'm not saying everything should be wrapped in bubble wrap and nobody touches the down vote, but be more objective. Trolls, other fans being extremely negative, and self promotions I feel is all warranted for down votes, flags, and off topics. If we are just debating and we are going back and forth save the down vote. Please don't turn this site into an ego fest. We are here for the DAWGS.

    It's clear, at least to me, that there are a variety of reasons why folks use the DV. I don't belong to any other forums than this one. Do others have a "I disagree with you" button? Maybe the use of the button for various reasons suggests we need various buttons?

    Personally, I use the DV when I believe someone is rude or intentionally hurtful. Calling some one dumb, or an idiot or worse, can get my finger headed toward the DV button. The most recent DV I used was for someone calling someone else a pr!ck. Obviously, my own personal values/morals/ethics come into play here. I don't recall ever using DV to signal simple disagreement with someone's opinion. I do think a study of DV patterns would show they decline once football gets here, at least as long as the Dawgs are winning a lot.

    I try to steer away from the same things, if you can't say something nice... I don't see a disagree button for other sites. I quit them all. But I think should have that feature here. That will stop some of the unnessary mess we deal with. That will leave a lot of people's point average alone, too.

    Point average? What is that? What does one get points for? Are they redeemable for anything?

    Lol nothing huge. Just goes to badges I guess. I don't care if you do it most of the time, I just don't like seeing every post I make getting a DV because of some guy in a basement trolling. We can debate all day no problem, until it becomes a problem.

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  • BrooklynDawgBrooklynDawg Posts: 822 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @georgiaboy said:

    @BrooklynDawg said:

    @donm said:

    @BrooklynDawg said:
    We need guidelines for these down votes. A lot of you are either being sensitive or trolls, but the amount of down votes I see on some is ridicules. I joined the forum because I saw open minded DAWG fans enjoying healthy debates without their egos getting bruised. Now it seems this forum is starting to resemble the other sites in their pettiness. I'm not saying everything should be wrapped in bubble wrap and nobody touches the down vote, but be more objective. Trolls, other fans being extremely negative, and self promotions I feel is all warranted for down votes, flags, and off topics. If we are just debating and we are going back and forth save the down vote. Please don't turn this site into an ego fest. We are here for the DAWGS.

    It's clear, at least to me, that there are a variety of reasons why folks use the DV. I don't belong to any other forums than this one. Do others have a "I disagree with you" button? Maybe the use of the button for various reasons suggests we need various buttons?

    Personally, I use the DV when I believe someone is rude or intentionally hurtful. Calling some one dumb, or an idiot or worse, can get my finger headed toward the DV button. The most recent DV I used was for someone calling someone else a pr!ck. Obviously, my own personal values/morals/ethics come into play here. I don't recall ever using DV to signal simple disagreement with someone's opinion. I do think a study of DV patterns would show they decline once football gets here, at least as long as the Dawgs are winning a lot.

    I try to steer away from the same things, if you can't say something nice... I don't see a disagree button for other sites. I quit them all. But I think should have that feature here. That will stop some of the unnessary mess we deal with. That will leave a lot of people's point average alone, too.

    A grown man, on an internet forum, worried about point averages and dv's.

    WOW!

    I know right, what has the world come to.

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  • MidtownDawgMidtownDawg Posts: 129 ✭✭✭ Junior

    @BrooklynDawg said:
    We need guidelines for these down votes. A lot of you are either being sensitive or trolls, but the amount of down votes I see on some is ridicules. I joined the forum because I saw open minded DAWG fans enjoying healthy debates without their egos getting bruised. Now it seems this forum is starting to resemble the other sites in their pettiness. I'm not saying everything should be wrapped in bubble wrap and nobody touches the down vote, but be more objective. Trolls, other fans being extremely negative, and self promotions I feel is all warranted for down votes, flags, and off topics. If we are just debating and we are going back and forth save the down vote. Please don't turn this site into an ego fest. We are here for the DAWGS.

    You are correct.

    Thank you for providing a PERFECT example of a post that deserves the down vote!

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  • georgiaboygeorgiaboy Posts: 846 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @BojanglesInsider said:
    Wish I remembered the password to my 12ed account

    :D

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  • bmauldinbmauldin Posts: 4,807 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I posted something like this my first 3 months because people would dv over differing opinions... got called a wuss and recd about 10 dvs. Lol.

    I agree on petty dvs though.

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  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @BrooklynDawg said:

    @sauceddawg said:

    it's starting to turn into Reddit.

    Its not that bad yet. Ppl here don't think theyre actual analysts/reporters over here

    True, but we are now getting the ego hounds that believe their opinion is gospel and if we go against it then we are the devil.

    You are the devil.

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  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @BrooklynDawg said:

    @sauceddawg said:

    it's starting to turn into Reddit.

    Its not that bad yet. Ppl here don't think theyre actual analysts/reporters over here

    True, but we are now getting the ego hounds that believe their opinion is gospel and if we go against it then we are the devil.

    You are the devil.

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  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @BrooklynDawg said:

    @sauceddawg said:

    it's starting to turn into Reddit.

    Its not that bad yet. Ppl here don't think theyre actual analysts/reporters over here

    True, but we are now getting the ego hounds that believe their opinion is gospel and if we go against it then we are the devil.

    You are the devil.

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