Reddit Style Voting for Six Month Plan

[Roy Awesome]

Originally Posted by Rockit

Allow me to reiterate.

Originally Posted by Rockit

Reddit is awful. Just bad and no one cares to visit it. Hey guys the 80's are missing you.

Originally Posted by Rockit

Well then can you see why such a "vote" might be biased? The only people who give a shit about that format are Reddit users?

Originally Posted by Rockit

Nah I posted none. Dont give a shit about Reddit. Climb another hill. This is a terrible antiquated format. But I wouldn't expect anything less from a terrible antiquated company like SOE. Just horrible. Listserv died a while ago but Reddit didnt get the memo. 4chan I can expect but SOE get's behind this Reddit effort. LMFAO.

What kind of giant stick do you have shoved up your ass?

Seriously, just because you don't like it doesn't mean nobody does. The Upvote/Downvote system is very very effective for gauging public interest. It's something that Valve uses for Steam Workshop to put items into Dota 2 and TF2, Youtube uses it to rank videos, Facebook uses for statuses... The list goes on and on.

It's an effective metric for gauging public interest in a topic, one I would argue is better than traditional 'post count' forum method. A well liked idea, traditionally, would only gather a handful of posts on the subject (a majority would agree and not say anything), and only controversial or unliked ideas get debated to death.

If you bothered to read the post that smedley posted on /r/planetside, you can see they are simply going for an 'upvote/downvote' system for getting feedback from the userbase. They aren't throwing out their forums and creating a subreddit. This system is custom tailored to the needs of SOE and not something they are using for community building...purely for feedback.