How does a Phuks user eliminate automatic downvoting of every comment and submission to this site?
In my circumstance downvoting may even affect those who interact with me. Look at my history.
Is there a way to directly contact Admins to address this?
we talked about making a new sort that ranks the votes based on the user levels. It's a super intensive query and needs a bunch of caching to store all the active users and what their levels are every few mins/hours.
yeah, oops, i meant sort the posts by number of votes over time, but the votes have different values depending on who they came from or ignore votes from people with a high dv/uv ratio.
say like five upvotes from five level one users on a post, that post would be equal to another post with one upvote from a level ten user.
and attracts respect through apparent seniority.
I think I can destroy that misconception.
After the first couple levels it is just a meaningless 'popularity contest'.
The admins could automatically check for users who are downvoted consistently and users who appear to be obviously targeting certain people consistently. I'm not sure what they do when a problem user is detected though... shame them with a badge, ban them, send them a polite message telling them to cut it out? All measures can be easily circumvented by problem users.
I try to counteract some of your undeserved downvotes and I'm sure others do too. That's probably the best that can be done for now.
It's not just content visibility: phuks system for ranking users is just based on raw popularity. If you attract a group of problem users or alts it's not hard to game it.
The admins say ranking doesn't matterMy impression is that the admins say ranking does matter much, but it already confers various benefits, and attracts respect through apparent seniority. I can only see ranking mattering more in future.