upvote lists for writers and submissions

Thisisnota Realname on 6/16/2022 8:32:45 PM
Episode last modified by Thisisnota Realname on 6/16/2022 8:34:03 PM

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I don’t know if it is feasible, but could the mods set it up so that if you click a nonzero number listing a submission’s “number of upvotes”, that it would then show you a list of everyone that upvoted it? Possibly also you could go to any user’s page and see a list of every page upvoted by them next to who wrote those pages too, so that I would know to avoid that writer if it’s basically just a list of their own content. I think that is just a good idea in general. That would make it easy to determine who is cheating, upvoting their own pages, whether directly with the account they submitted it under, or going so far as to do it multiple times with alt accounts because the same set of accounts would be upvoting their own submissions and no one else’s or drastically more than anyone else’s. Like the way it is with disqus comments or deviantart pages. Ideally it wouldn’t even be a separate page but just a dropdown list that appears when you click on it. So for example if alice writes 20 pages and all of them are upvoted by alice, I’d like to know that. And even worse, if 15 of them are upvoted by bob and charles and doug, yet bob and charles and doug don’t do anything but upvote alice’s pages, it would be good if that information was visible. I’m inclined to not want to read things that were upvoted by their own authors and given an inflated appearance of how good they are. The upvoting system as it currently stands is rather sus.

I can understand why DevArt needs something like that. There are thousands of new additions per day and for artists offering commissions gaming the system means more money coming their way. Here, the community is small enough you quickly learn to recognize authors by name for good or for ill. And awesome stuff like the "Iridescent Sun"-story predate the whole upvote-system and are literally underrated as a result. So checking out zero-upvote additions to branches you like the concept of, is a good policy anyway. Upvotes seem more of a way to pat the author on the back for work well done, without jumping the hurdle of composing an original sounding comment.

broom11

6/17/2022 2:44:08 AM

I think broom said it very well. Read what you enjoy. Don't read what you don't enjoy. For my part I don't even look at the number of upvotes before skimming something, the upvote has always seemed to be more of a passive encouragement for the author rather than a mark of what's good or bad.

Perri

6/18/2022 2:19:29 PM

What Perri said above is correct. The upvote may be encouraging, but it doesn't really say much. A recent episode I wrote got an upvote, but I don't know where the upvote was because of the transformations in it, the pop culture references, the humor, the awkward conversation in the hallway prior to all that, or some combination of the above. Or maybe the upvoter just like the episode in general. In any case, it's best not to take upvotes too seriously. They're not that much different than the 'like' function on social media sites.

Christine L.

7/3/2022 6:23:18 PM