Senna Jawa
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Should there be the unvote/modify_vote option?
You may say 1.Yes 2.Either way (I am undecided or it makes no difference to me) 3.No
My own answer is "either way". But for the sake of discussion let's look at the consequences of option 1. versus 3. It is enough to talk about 1. since 3. is just the opposite of 1. Of course if you don't care about votes (like me, except for the trivia value and joy of watching them numbers and them readers and do the correlations) then it is one of good reasons to select option 2.
Option "yes", which permits to unvote or change your mind about the vote, i.e. your evaluation of a poem, certainly makes sense for this exact reason. If you honestly changed your mind about a poem then it would be only natural to change the evalution, i.e. your vote. There may be several reasons for viewing a poem differently than on an earlier occasion: perhaps you missed something the first time; perhaps there was a discussion and now you are convinced that your earlier evaluation was off mark; possibly now you know more about poetry...
On the other hand, for those who care about votes and awards etc, allowing to unvote or to modify votes is a major complication, prone to abuse. Poems which were about to win an award would be in a danger of a last minute voting "correction", which would have nothing to do with an artistic evaluation of a poem and everything with manipulation. Also, any "conflict" between Literotica participants may end in "punishing" the poems, where one meant to punish the author. While in theory the author and the poem should not be confused, and one's attitude toward the one should not affect the other, in practice this ideal is not achieved, far from it, and Literotica is no exception. Yes, outside Literotica I saw a lot of bashing poems as means to bash their authors.
While the issues I raised in the analysis are significant to the poetic community, the question of voting, in my opinion, is not. I am simply curious. If somehow the voting business were important to me than I would... then instead of selecting "I don't care, either way" I would choose "undecided", so that I would still select option 2.
Hm, I marked the "Yes! post a poll" box, and set the number of options to 3. Is that all that there is to it? I can't say that I feel confident. I was hoping that polling logistic will work without reading any instruction. OK, let's forget the sceptism, let's post it and see what happens.
Have fun,
You may say 1.Yes 2.Either way (I am undecided or it makes no difference to me) 3.No
My own answer is "either way". But for the sake of discussion let's look at the consequences of option 1. versus 3. It is enough to talk about 1. since 3. is just the opposite of 1. Of course if you don't care about votes (like me, except for the trivia value and joy of watching them numbers and them readers and do the correlations) then it is one of good reasons to select option 2.
Option "yes", which permits to unvote or change your mind about the vote, i.e. your evaluation of a poem, certainly makes sense for this exact reason. If you honestly changed your mind about a poem then it would be only natural to change the evalution, i.e. your vote. There may be several reasons for viewing a poem differently than on an earlier occasion: perhaps you missed something the first time; perhaps there was a discussion and now you are convinced that your earlier evaluation was off mark; possibly now you know more about poetry...
On the other hand, for those who care about votes and awards etc, allowing to unvote or to modify votes is a major complication, prone to abuse. Poems which were about to win an award would be in a danger of a last minute voting "correction", which would have nothing to do with an artistic evaluation of a poem and everything with manipulation. Also, any "conflict" between Literotica participants may end in "punishing" the poems, where one meant to punish the author. While in theory the author and the poem should not be confused, and one's attitude toward the one should not affect the other, in practice this ideal is not achieved, far from it, and Literotica is no exception. Yes, outside Literotica I saw a lot of bashing poems as means to bash their authors.
While the issues I raised in the analysis are significant to the poetic community, the question of voting, in my opinion, is not. I am simply curious. If somehow the voting business were important to me than I would... then instead of selecting "I don't care, either way" I would choose "undecided", so that I would still select option 2.
Hm, I marked the "Yes! post a poll" box, and set the number of options to 3. Is that all that there is to it? I can't say that I feel confident. I was hoping that polling logistic will work without reading any instruction. OK, let's forget the sceptism, let's post it and see what happens.
Have fun,
), even when it does for others.
