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Why do some items have a vote of 0?

If people think their own submission sucks so much that they vote it down then why the heck are they submitting it?

by danib62
asked 2 years ago

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Good question.

I believe this has been commented somewhere else with regards to who can post deals. From my understanding, if you see a 0 vote next to a deal, it means that either they haven't bought from woot before or they have never made a comment. In some cases, the poster is spamming (like the furniture guy).

Bottom line: Be wary of the 0 votes.

sgoman5674
2 years ago

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@sgoman5674: yes:

If you have not bought from woot, your account is not able to vote on deals.woot items. this is a firm anti-spam measure so that you cannot create accounts willy-nilly to vote a bias/spam item up.

you can create the same appearance by down-voting your own entry, but I don't see the point in that. your own votes are auto-added to your comments and deal/question submissions to avoid the hassle of self-voting.

so right now it creates an interesting side effect / evidence of a user experience on main woot. when we have the deals.woot reputation triangle visible on the deal flow, that'll really far surpass this in terms of filtering utility.

snapster
2 years ago

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@snapster: Why are you working on Thanksgiving?

sgoman5674
2 years ago

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@sgoman5674: Actually (as you know), I've asked this, and also commented on it, a few times. I'm replying here to make it easier for the users to find (just click on my name, which takes you to the things I've asked, and Voila! you'll have even more answers to this question). Sneaky, yes?

shrdlu
2 years ago

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@shrdlu: Like a ninja.

sgoman5674
2 years ago

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Sorry

This is only for people who have bought woots

We restrict voting to users who have purchased something from one of the other Woot stores. It's not just because we want your money (which we do) - it's the best way to be sure all the votes are coming from real people and not spam-bots or phony accounts. The best way we can think of, anyway. For now.

You can always get voting rights by buying something from one of Woot's other sites:

Purchases through Deals.Woot don't count, because in that case you're not buying anything from us. And we don't have your account information for those purchases.

If you think you've bought something from Woot before and still can't vote, make sure you're logged in with the same account you used to buy from us.

Geez, why so negative?

You have to vote up more before you can vote down.

Don't get us wrong. Negativity has its place. And downvotes are just as essential as upvotes when it comes to making Deals.Woot a useful place to find deals.

But when your votes lean so heavily toward the dark side, we have to wonder. Go vote up a few things. Accentuate the positive for a little while. It'll do you some good, and it'll do the site some good, too. Then you can get back to dealing out the smackdowns, OK?

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.