Views: 862 Is MOBAfire making me a dishonest voter/commenter?
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For some reason, i want to talk about how my guide is turning me into a dishonest MOBAfire user.
A little while ago, i made a twitch guide and i have been updating it rather consistently. OVer time, i have built some kind of emotional attachment to it. Yes, it's nerdy, but i'm sure some other MOBAfire guide writers can agree with me. ANYWAYS, In order to bring some awareness to my twitch guide, I have recently been scrounging the lists of newly updated guides, and commenting on the fixes i think will improve their guide. I'll be honest - some of the guides that i have seen are just downright and truly terrible.
What really pains me, though, is that i can't fully express myself on those new guides. I always have to water down what i say, and make it sound more polite, and in the worst cases, Upvote the guide, when i know that i shouldn't.
Recently, I have been being more vocal towards the guides that i really disliked, and my twitch guide has been taking a hit because of it. 0 likes/5 dislikes in 24 hours is never something to cheer about.
Anyways, back towards the actual topic at hand...
I still want to be a help to the MOBAfire community, but i don't think i can productively do that while i am under the constant threat of having my guide down-voted. Any suggestions?
The only one i can come up with, is asking 'a friend' to join mobafire, and from time to time 'convince' him to write X on guides from time to time.
A little while ago, i made a twitch guide and i have been updating it rather consistently. OVer time, i have built some kind of emotional attachment to it. Yes, it's nerdy, but i'm sure some other MOBAfire guide writers can agree with me. ANYWAYS, In order to bring some awareness to my twitch guide, I have recently been scrounging the lists of newly updated guides, and commenting on the fixes i think will improve their guide. I'll be honest - some of the guides that i have seen are just downright and truly terrible.
What really pains me, though, is that i can't fully express myself on those new guides. I always have to water down what i say, and make it sound more polite, and in the worst cases, Upvote the guide, when i know that i shouldn't.
Recently, I have been being more vocal towards the guides that i really disliked, and my twitch guide has been taking a hit because of it. 0 likes/5 dislikes in 24 hours is never something to cheer about.
Anyways, back towards the actual topic at hand...
i would like to thank the MOBAfire users who are not afraid to express themselves. I would like to thank the users & guide owners who are not afraid to downvote guides that are truly terrible.
I still want to be a help to the MOBAfire community, but i don't think i can productively do that while i am under the constant threat of having my guide down-voted. Any suggestions?
The only one i can come up with, is asking 'a friend' to join mobafire, and from time to time 'convince' him to write X on guides from time to time.
Simply downvoting someone's guides imo really won't help improve the guide the most. At least, compared to simply commenting and doing a legit critique of a guide. Ohh how it sucks that i can't have the best of both worlds :|
But like Psi said, especially don't downvote guides with C2V on. I hate comment 2 vote.
I'll upvote your **** if you upvote mine! <--kills the community
Stay true to yourself. If I was stupid and wrote a bunch of ********, I'd hope the community would come out and point out my flaws. It would improve my guide and my game significantly if my ego wouldn't get in the way, hypothetically.
The way this site works, you can't post a lot of criticism without getting downvoted for it sometimes, especially if you're criticizing guides which you've written a guide for. You'll have to pick which one you value more and then stick with it.
The ethic I've adopted is to be honest with my criticism on any guide that I think has potential (or sometimes when downvoting a bad guide with a good score) unless I've written a champion for that guide. I personally don't see the use in trying to help more naive authors improve their guides when I have a much better one sitting there already.
Well, you just have to live with it, I guess :| I've been given some random down-votes, too, but I still have, like, 28-29 votes so it makes a bigger difference in percentage value.
But yeah, that's indeed the risk you take. It's very sad that people actually downvote your awesome guide because you downvoted their ****ty guide.