Originally Posted by
anabolism
StackExchange awards badges to members whose questions or answers have received a certain number of upvotes. FT does NOT need any such stats. There should be NO indication as to how many of a member's posts have been upvoted (or downvoted if this is added).
I agree. But then it goes back to an earlier question - what's the point of the like/helpful button?
Like you say, we need to understand the goals.
Of course there are many such members, but I'd strongly suggest that any mechanism for ranking posts not have a goal of discouraging such members. That's a different job for a different mechanism.
Seems like finally having an obvious way to track the trolls is one benefit that can come from a system like this. There are some members that SHOULD be discouraged from posting here.
I think it would be OK to implement this in stages
I agree, and that's a standard software development practice. There's no rush to have it all right away. But IB has a horrible track record here. Could be years between getting these updates. Potentially longer if each tweak has to go through this same sort of polling process. And there's always a risk that if you don't test it end to end all at once, you may find out the initial piece is broken and you have to start over or make some other change that would effectively wipe out all of the previous votes. People might be cool with that, just another thing to take into consideration.