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When will the prompt from attempting to change a vote past five minutes be re-worded?

AS it is now:
"Too late, we all heard you!

Hmm... you're wanting to take your vote back?
Well, that's a bit tricky. See, we do a lot of stuff with your vote, using it to work out the popularity of what you voted on, compare that to all the other things voted on, tally up our leaderboard, work out your reputation. Someday we'll do a little cartoon showing just how hard your vote is working.
Anyway, taking votes back messes all that up, so we give you five minutes, in case you just mis-clicked. After that we've got to say no take-backs. Luckily, votes are free, so feel free to throw them around left and right wherever you see fit."

@shawnmiller stated that your ability to down-vote is equal to your activity of up-voting in a 24 hour period. http://deals.woot.com/questions/comment/1ea2b8c5-e6a4-461e-aa73-539a741136eb

So I was just curious of when and how the prompt will be worded.

by xarous
asked 10 months ago

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Interesting question. I think that it will be reworded in a few weeks.

sgoman5674
10 months ago

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I'm not sure it needs rewording. The current one isn't quite precise, but it's fully true.
Adding in something about downvotes is important, but they have bigger fish to fry at the moment. I haven't seen a warning when you try to downvote without any available, and there are far more pressing issues.

trahentis
10 months ago

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How would you word it?

shawnmiller
10 months ago

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@shawnmiller: cutting it after "...no take-backs." would make it less misleading, but that also leaves out info about downvotes, which is what I think xarous was looking for.
Aside from that, I think an outright crowd-sourced question might find you a good one, but only if you could get the ball rolling (pushing to popular is harder than you'd think).

trahentis
10 months ago

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May as well get the ball rolling. http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/b21c1fb4-bd5a-413d-972f-1723ce624d33/how-would-you-phrase-no-take-backs-alert-for-votes

trahentis
10 months ago

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What is wrong with the wording? A vote is a vote, whether it is positive or negative. Why would the wording have to change?

colonelpuffpuff
10 months ago

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@colonelpuffpuff: At some level, I agree. But I think the issue was with downvotes not being precisely free.
@xarous, care to elaborate for us? What is it that you think merits replacing?

trahentis
10 months ago

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@shawnmiller: I would want it worded with a freakin' cartoon all ready. Then possibly add some text in there about up/down votes. Down votes aren't free. They are exactly what you put into the system.
(Side note, I am not getting any e-mails from deals side. I've checked my account settings, reset them, re-logged, cleared cache, unsubscribed, re-subscribed and nothing, not when I am tagged or when it is my question or deal.)

@trahentis: Pretty much spot on. I don't know if they expect that to be covered by trying to vote negatively without the corresponding positive votes prompt.

xarous
10 months ago

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Too late, we all heard you!

Hmm... you're wanting to take your vote back?

Well, that's a bit tricky. See, we do a lot of stuff with your vote, using it to work out the popularity of what you voted for, compare that to all the other things voted on, tally up our leaderboard, work out your reputation. Someday we'll do a little cartoon showing just how hard your vote is working.

Anyway, taking votes back messes all that up, so we give you five minutes, in case you just mis-clicked. After that we've got to say no take-backs. Luckily, votes are free, so feel free to throw them around left and right wherever you see fit.