"Logged in to upvote/downvote" And Other Similar Replies

Aeszarck·May 26, 2017·3 votes·559 views

As long as the voting system exists, these replies are simply spam and just take up space in the comments where actual discussion could be happening. I think it's fine if you want to write out an actual compliment with some meat to a person, but only saying that you upvoted a post is literally providing no other information to the poster other than it was you who upvoted him or her, and I don't think that should be enough for a reply to be considered worthwhile discussion. Same principle with saying that you downvoted a person.

Would it be reasonable and feasible to remove these replies under the justification of one of these Universal Rules?

Posting content not related to the discussion Making repetitive non-constructive or low effort content Bumping of discussions with no additional context

13 Comments

TheSequelsRBadMay 28, 20174 votes

Was already logged in, but if I wasn't I would log in to downvote.

AeszarckMay 28, 20171 votes

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Was already logged in, but if I wasn't I would log in to downvote.

Why, may I ask?

TheSequelsRBadMay 28, 20171 votes

To be trolly.

I mean I kinda agree with you in principle, I just don't really care that much.

Deep Terror NamiMay 26, 20173 votes

This is just my 2 cents, but these kinds of comments happen almost exclusively in announcement posts separate from the boards, where they disappear very fast and are hardly disruptive. Those, I think aren't an issue at all (and it's kind of a community expectation there).

Concerning the ones here, sure they may be low-effort and/or spam, but they're uncommon and pretty low on the list of things that need to be removed. If someone is doing that frequently, please let us know by reporting it because spam is spam and we'll take care of it because it can become pretty disruptive that way. We don't and shouldn't have to go after every little violation though.

Do you feel we should be taking a harsher stance against this and looking out for it?

Hit us up on the Moderation Discord if you need to report something you feel mods are overlooking.

AeszarckMay 26, 20171 votes

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This is just my 2 cents, but these kinds of comments happen almost exclusively in announcement posts separate from the boards, where they disappear very fast and are hardly disruptive. Those, I think aren't an issue at all (and it's kind of a community expectation there).

Concerning the ones here, sure they may be low-effort and/or spam, but they're uncommon and pretty low on the list of things that need to be removed. If someone is doing that frequently, please let us know by reporting it because spam is spam and we'll take care of it because it can become pretty disruptive that way. We don't and shouldn't have to go after every little violation though.

Do you feel we should be taking a harsher stance against this and looking out for it?

Hit us up on the Moderation Discord if you need to report something you feel mods are overlooking.

If I'm reading right, then if I see someone commenting like that frequently then I should report all those posts, but other than that it's not a big enough priority. I think you should take a harsher stance on the low-effort "downvoted" replies since they're pretty much insults, even if they aren't that offensive, but I guess I'm okay with you not taking a harsh stance on the "upvoted" replies.

Deep Terror NamiMay 26, 20171 votes

If you feel it's abusive and should be reported, even if it's an individual post, report it! We'll have to make a judgement call based on the context in the comment, that post, and sometimes their posting history. Some may end up removed while others are not. But again this is how I'm going to look at those posts, we still discuss these things amongst each other and defer to Keyru if we can't come to a consensus.

This is the kind of discussion we want here, so I'm going to pull in some other Arbiters so they can give their opinion. It could be that everyone else wants to delete them without mercy which would lead to me doing it too!

Automated RivenMay 28, 20173 votes

Logged in to downvoted.

Who is TaliyahMay 28, 20172 votes

logged in just to downvote

TerozuJun 1, 20172 votes

Logged in; Down voted.

ShadòwMay 26, 20171 votes

logged in to upvote

ModUlanopoMay 26, 20171 votes

I think it really depends on the specific board. In GD or Misc., it's a part of the the culture. I haven't seen it get out hand, though.

On other boards I don't see it often enough to be a concern, but I keep mostly to PB.

As DTN said, if you see something that you think is inappropriate, feel free to report. It will get looked at.

EmbertineMay 28, 20171 votes

Someone saying that they logged in just to upvote is actually them saying, "Hey man! Your post was really good and I like what you said/joked about. It was good enough for my lazy self to actually click the log in button on my phone and go through the activity of logging in to upvote your post instead of simply agreeing/chuckling and moving on to another post.