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Overcoming targeted viewing?
On a Stack Exchange community I moderate, we have received some complaints about what appears to be targeted voting. Targeted voting is where somebody goes through another user's posts voting for (or ...
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Are there any bad side effects of having a Dislike or Downvote button on a forum-based community? [duplicate]
We are still developing our forum community, and we're going to be having a "like button" where users can like a post or replies that they find interesting or like a post from a reputable or ...
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How can I mitigate some of the more harmful effects of anonymous downvoting on the community?
This question is about a Stack Exchange site, but may also apply to other sites with similar voting mechanisms.
Stack Exchange, for better or worse, allows anonymous downvoting. People are strongly ...
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How can pile-on voting be combated?
Sites like reddit and sites on the StackExchange network have posts that can be voted up or voted down to rate their usefulness.
On some posts that have many votes in a certain direction, many users ...
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Should I do anything to protect, or even privilege, minority opinions on my site?
My site focuses on the controversial topic of hard-boiled-egg-breaking. Most of my users are from the hit-round-ends school, but a few are from the hit-pointy-ends school. These two groups struggle ...
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