You can't say this is forum voting is functioning for the off-topic.
Why do you blame the system, whilst the problem is the absolutely the mass amount of low quality posts.
Off-topic discussions most of the time start out with someone writing a couple of phrases (a short text) followed by people talking about the issue that is presented.
True, but the quality of those few lines is pretty much non-existent in most Off-Topic posts.
Benjamin basically summed it up in his post. There is nothing that is worth upvoting on OT. Fix that and then your massive amount of downvoted threads will disappear.
I do sometimes check who voted on stuff and take voting privileges away from people who are voting irresponsibly, such as downvoting every thread.
So this basically means that it isnt just a couple of people trying to fuck with the OT forum, but its a general feeling amongst a lot of forum users that most OTposts deserves to be downvoted.
Adding an "All (Excluding Off-Topic)" link to the bottom of the forum list might reduce OT downvoting. I'd guess that a significant portion of the downvoters would rather not see OT at all.
I think this will help a lot. Muli's userscript already filters the OT for me, so Im usually not bothered by it. Only on my phone I see how fucking useless it is.
There is no way to purify filth.
You stop with posting is a good start though.
Perhaps we look at the past with way too much nostalgia while we forget the realism
Absolutely not. Had voting be around at that time, I wouldve downvoted all that shit.
And to be quite frank, the "should it be legal threads" were way more horrific then Tabby's current subjects.
Not really
So yeah, I think the voting system is working pretty well.
I agree with AG here. Its the post and the people who are the problem, not the voting system.
Karl, Wally and I may look like gang leaders of the forum
Youre giving yourself way to much credit