240 http://uservoice.com/users/240-cori http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dabd0ebcbc255a6b4a12576806845602?default=http://uservoice.com/images/icons/default-avatar.jpg cori cori cori 23 1244 176 http://feedback.uservoice.com/pages/1-general/suggestions/176-allow-negative-votes- sometimes, especially in cases where there's a lot of traffic on a suggestion, allowing someone to vote *against* something might be worthwhile. Obviously negative votes should still count against... sometimes, especially in cases where there's a lot of traffic on a suggestion, allowing someone to vote *against* something might be worthwhile. Obviously negative votes should still count against the user's vote total (except as a positive subtraction, if you know what I mean... ;)), and to avoid slashdot-style battles, perhaps setting the maximum negative vote to -1 would be a good idea. 2029 85 under review 1 General general After carefully reviewing the statistics, we've decided against allowing negative votes. Negative votes allow good ideas to be buried for political bias, dislike of the submitter, etc. Instead we're going to be building a system into comments that allows for you to provide a dissenting opinion and for others to agree with you. We're current working on a release that's focused on admin tools but this is next up on the agenda. After carefully reviewing the statistics, we've decided against allowing negative votes. Negative votes allow good ideas to be buried for political... 574478 sanford sanford 240 cori cori cori 2008-02-11T17:12:11Z 2009-10-02T01:07:33Z general 2008-02-07T13:21:27Z 2009-11-22T07:48:23Z