Solidarity Thread

[Peter45]

Hi everybody

last week I wrote this posting

At that time @QUAD DOMAINS had an Impact Score of ca -170, @Domain noob was at -15
I mentioned these two members because the unfairness which their accounts had been treated with was evident to everybody.

Today
Quad Domains: - 3
Domain Noob (notably without any activity since then): + 28

There are good people in this community, people who care and are ready to take action upon it.


Unfortunately downvoting leads to the poster's account being penalised as it lowers its Impact Score.
You have surely met cases in which accounts were unfairly penalised through a questionable use of the downvoting tool.
Seeing one's posting disagreed with with no apparent reason doesn't annoy as much as seeing one's account unfairly penalised/punished.

In my view the fact that said penalisation is conducted mostly anonymously is extremely toxic for this community.


This thread offers you the chance of flagging up - be it simply through a link or adding a screenshot or a brief explanation - postings which in your view caused their author to be unfairly penalised.
Interested readers will look into it and decide whether to take action or not.

Let's uplift and encourage where anonymous penalising demoralises and intimidates.
Let's counter the negativity spreading through anonymous penalising with positivity.

 

[TjWarrior]

Hi Peter45, thanks for this post
I am just frontal and direct with people, and I don't usually moderate my language
I think that can contribute for the downvoters, I don't know

 

[Paul]

I think the "offending" party should have been banned ages ago just for being an obvious paid shill/liar (we all know it) and deliberately flooding the political forum with BS to drown out legitimate opinions.

Paid shill? You can’t make that sort of accusation toward anyone—regardless of political alignment—without evidence, and it’s certainly off-topic for this thread.

 

[Sam1234]

Paid shill? You can’t make that sort of accusation toward anyone—regardless of political alignment—without evidence, and it’s certainly off-topic for this thread.

You're right, I'm sorry. I should have stayed out of this thread and let me set the record straight that JB Lions is obviously a man of his own opinions and motivations, and upon thinking about it is almost certainly not a paid shill of any sort. My apologies to him as well.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Hello,

We'd like to start by saying that we really appreciate everyone who let us know about this issue. It wasn't something we anticipated beforehand, but it certainly became a detriment to the community.

After many months of brainstorming, passionate internal debates, and feedback from the community, we believe that we finally came up with a solid solution: namely, "Reduce negativity enabled by Post Quality."

This update is 100% retroactive and went into full effect on October 21, 2023.

We wanted to observe how well it worked before announcing it, and we've been very pleased with the results. We hope that you have noticed a positive change, too.

We've also noticed an increase in quick replies and a decrease in manual point assignments, which includes downvotes (negative point assignments):

The 3 months in the image are September, October, and November (as of Nov 23, 2023). The data shows that public quick reply usage has increased, which indicates that post quality is being used more as it was intended rather than as a way to attack others anonymously. The incentive to misuse points has been greatly reduced thanks to this update.

You can also check accounts that were negatively affected before, such as those mentioned in the first post of this thread to see how they've been positively affected by this update: @QUAD DOMAINS and @Domain noob.

Learn how it works:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/update-to-quick-replies-and-content-points-post-quality.1315674/

We hope this helps.