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   Sue B.posted 12 years ago

   I really like that there is a feature to either vote up or vote down an answer.  What I don't like is if you touch it by accident (which I did) it won't let you cancel the process.  You could change your vote to down instead of up and vice versa but that does not offer a solution if you really did not have much thought on the answer and did not want to vote it up or down.
   
   Forced to make such a big commitment (I'm kidding) of course I am voting up!

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      WryLiltposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      It doesn't actually do anything anymore. Hasn't for awhile.
      
      There have been quite a few hubbers suggesting that it should be removed altogether.

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         Sue B.posted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Really? I thought for sure if something was voted down enough it wouldn't appear.  Voted up I always assumed would give the hubber more points in some way.

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            WryLiltposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Well scores don't actually do anything. And the buttons don't contribute to your scores.
            
            Voting a hub down won't remove it - the only way to get it checked by a moderator is "flagging" it. And if you want to promote it, there are plenty of buttons for that - you can share, comment, like, pin, stumble etc

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               lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Sue is talking about the answers I guess.. Not hubs as you've explained

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                  Sue B.posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Yes, I was only talking about answers to questions

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                     lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     

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   Marcy Goodfleischposted 12 years ago

   I've been frustrated by accidental clicks, too - especially if I'm on a mobile device and my finger bumps something I didn't mean to touch. I would like to see the site revisit the down button on hubs, though (and I realize this is about the up and down on answers). I think it's too easy for people to press 'down' on the hopper when they're cruising through hubs and come across one that doesn't particularly interest them.

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   rebekahELLEposted 12 years ago

   If the answer doesn't adequately answer the question, that's a reason to vote down.
   Sometimes I think people are just trying to gain accolades or whatever they think happens when they answer a lot of questions. But it doesn't help the person asking the question if it's one of those one sentence replies. I wish more people would simply not respond if they're not going to adequately answer the question.
   
   I don't know what to do with accidental clicks. It can happen, especially as Marcy said, on mobile devices. Sometimes while responding to a forum thread or question, I can't get to the 'follow' button to 'unclick'.

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      lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      That's true. Yesterday I went along and deleted those one liner answers.

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         rebekahELLEposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         oh, yes, you reminded me that we can now delete! Thanks for the reminder.
         
         Edit: I just deleted one. Now I hope that person is not offended, but it did not adequately answer the question.

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            lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            The people won't even know that you deleted an answer. Don't worry about it. I deleted plenty of questions as well and kept all the active ones that are useful or have hubs written around them intact.

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