Hm. Right now, you can’t downvote more than you’ve been upvoted. Suppose a Plonk costs 1000 downvotes, could only be applied once per user-pair, and increased the minimum viewability threshold of a user by 1. So if two people Plonked timtyler, his comments would start disappearing once they’d been voted down to −1, instead of −3. The opposite of a Plonk would be an Accolade and that would make comments harder to hide, lowering the threshold by 1?
Doesn’t actually sound like a good idea to me, but I do sometimes get the sense that there ought to be better incentives for people to take hints.
Automatic threshold effect seems like a bad idea, but displaying the Plonk score alongside total Karma on the user page might prove effective at making community’s perception of the user available.
(I presently have exactly two users I wish to “Plonk”, Tim one of them and the other I would rather only indicate anonymously, and I want a socially appropriate and persistent method of showing this opinion.)
Being plonked by a single user having a drastic effect on one’s comments’ visibility strikes me as having a lot of downsides.
I’m wondering (aside from that it would be nice to have killfiles) whether it would have a good effect if plonks were anonymous, but the number of plonks each person has received is public..
I don’t think plonks and accolades would be globally visible; users would affect what they see themselves, but other users would see it as just a regular vote, if at all.
Hm. Right now, you can’t downvote more than you’ve been upvoted. Suppose a Plonk costs 1000 downvotes, could only be applied once per user-pair, and increased the minimum viewability threshold of a user by 1. So if two people Plonked timtyler, his comments would start disappearing once they’d been voted down to −1, instead of −3. The opposite of a Plonk would be an Accolade and that would make comments harder to hide, lowering the threshold by 1?
Doesn’t actually sound like a good idea to me, but I do sometimes get the sense that there ought to be better incentives for people to take hints.
Automatic threshold effect seems like a bad idea, but displaying the Plonk score alongside total Karma on the user page might prove effective at making community’s perception of the user available.
(I presently have exactly two users I wish to “Plonk”, Tim one of them and the other I would rather only indicate anonymously, and I want a socially appropriate and persistent method of showing this opinion.)
Being plonked by a single user having a drastic effect on one’s comments’ visibility strikes me as having a lot of downsides.
I’m wondering (aside from that it would be nice to have killfiles) whether it would have a good effect if plonks were anonymous, but the number of plonks each person has received is public..
Note, of course, that threshold of hiding is editable in the first place, so this would have to act as a modifier on that.
I think so. But perhaps ability to plonk/accolade should only be given to people with a high level of karma.
To stop the pathological case where people can set up a hundred accounts and accolade themselves (or plonk a rival).
Also—people should be able to adjust their personal “plonk horizon” just as they can with the low-comment threshold at present.
I don’t think plonks and accolades would be globally visible; users would affect what they see themselves, but other users would see it as just a regular vote, if at all.