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Proposed change to AB rating system: Points awarded to an answer by the person who originally posted the question can not be taken away through down rating by others. What do you think?

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by Anonymous on February 9th, 2007
I don't know who is proposing this, but I think the rating system is fine the way it is, even though it is is not and never would be "perfect."
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- I am proposing it! :o) I just think that if I ask question, and I find an answer to be helpful to my question, why should someone else be able to take those points away from the answer? (This is born of the fact that someone went to one of my questions and systematicallt downrated a number of answers I had already given points to...maybe to to push their own answer up. ) It is just a curiosity of mine, and I wonder what other people think about it.
  
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by Drublic on February 9th, 2007
Why would that be a good thing? Each person decides for themselves who they want to give points to and no one should have the right to change that. Besides, it's best to keep the rating system as simple as possible to make it easier on everyone.
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- My question came from the fact that when I ask a legitimate question, and I then return and award points to the people that answer, I don't think that someone else should be able to take those points away because I am the one who asked the question in the first place. It wouldn't be anything we would have to do differently - it would have to be some sort of programming thing that links the Question askers account to the answers under that question.
  
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  by This Daley has a new bundle of joy on February 9th, 2007
- First, the person only loses points on that question. The person's overall point total does not go down for negative ratings. Second, I know because you asked the question you feel it's yours (trust me, I've asked a lot of them and feel similar) but once the question is out there, it's for AnswerBag as a whole to decide what answers are helpful and what are not. I know there have been many times on my questions that i would like for one person's answer to be at the top, but either I've run out of ratings for them for the week or others think a different answer is better. The important thing is that you get the answers you are looking for.
  
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  by Drublic on February 9th, 2007
- Excellent points :o)
  
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by munchkin_kids_downunder on February 9th, 2007
i don't think there is a problem with the ratings. It's the stupid trolls that is the problem, not the points system. if someone disagrees strongly with a question or answer, it is there right to downrate. if it is an answer they should always leave a comment why they disagree. i don't think it needs to be changed, only if you give a negative, a comment has to be left would be better.
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- as i said, have some guts to leave a comment when you downrate, troll!
  
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by Anonymoose on February 9th, 2007
I would rather you can award a person any number of points 1-5 based on how well you liked their answer. If you did not like their answer you would give them a 1. If you really liked their answer you would give them a 5. And I guess we could keep a one point downrate so if you found someone's answer truly offensive or just really was not helpful you could give them a -1. So in other words instead of having a helpful and not helpful box to click on and people get points from you depending on what level you are, you get to choose how many points you want that person to have. They could develop the system so that as you go up levels you have more points to give. But not helpfuls should always be only worth a -1.
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- Interesting perspective. I had asked some time ago if we would have the ability to chose the number of points we award and some responses indicated it was a possibility in the future.
  
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by This Daley has a new bundle of joy on February 9th, 2007
I have actually found a flaw with my own question! I am going to argue with myself now.

If you preserve the positive points awarded by the question asker based on "possesion" of the question, you would also have to preserve negative points awarded by the question asker (and let's face it, there are people who will down rate any answer that is contrary to their own opinion.)
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- Let us know who wins the argument! lol
  
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  by Anonymous on February 9th, 2007
- LOL!
  
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  by munchkin_kids_downunder on February 9th, 2007
- My rational self will win this one...but which side is my rational one????
  
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