Throwdowns > Forfeited

Lifer: Metallica Sucks! said 06/14, 03:27 PM
I have a few problems with this...

1. It is going to be impossible to enforce. I'd say that up to (and occasionally well over) 100 TDs are made per day, and you have to figure that there are at least 10 votes for each of these. There are only a few moderators of FN. Do you expect them to go through 1,000+ votes, to see if there were comments along with votes? Not only would this be an impossible task, but it would pull these mods away from more important duties.

2. I just don't like the rule anyways. It isn't my duty to explain why I felt the need to vote for someone. Why should I waste a minute writing up why I voted when I could just as easily do it in a second? I just don't see why I have to explain my reasoning for my choice...that is the job of the the people arguing, not the voter.

3. Along with #2...there are few enough votes in TDs. I've seen many TDs that end without even 10 total votes. Doing this will drop that. You will start to see TDs that have 5 or fewer total votes. People don't want to waste time on something they really don't have a stake in anyways.

I'm sorry you were jipped in that TD, but that's still a rare occurrence. This rule will only hurt FN.

Lifer: Metallica Sucks! said 06/14, 04:13 PM
Umm..when did you say this TD was about the concept. You say in your first argument that you think this should be a new rule. If you can show me where you said this was in concept only, I'll happily eat my words.

This rule would not encourage more TDs. Besides driving people away from FN (or at least the TDing part of it), there would be fewer voters. I remember back in the day when it was an oddity to see fewer than 20 votes in a TD. Nowadays, 10 and under is the norm. Who wants to TD when there are about 5 votes?

Also, what does your 3rd paragraph have to do with this argument? Even if your rule goes into effect...how would that stop people for voting on their friends? They would put in their little comment, and their vote would go through...am I missing something here?

Congratulations, you're a wonderful person for commenting on why you voted. Guess what? I do that in the majority of TDs I vote in as well. I don't, however, want to be obligated to do this. If I feel like one person has done their job of arguing better, I will vote for them and perhaps say something. Perhaps not. If I was forced to write something, believe me when I say that I would do TDs and vote much less.