Question2Answer Q&A - Recent questions tagged upvoting

Does upvoting or downvoting have an affect on where the content my appear?

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 01:01:22 +0000

To clarify my question a bit. When users upvote or downvote a question or comment does it affect where the question appears? For an example if a question is downvoted does it get pushed down the list of questions? If a question is upvoted does it get pushed up the list of questions?

I was also thinking that if the voting feature has no relationship to the content, then it's merely just for points. I tried searching for my answer but, didn't find anything similiar.

If there is a post on this please share the link.:)

Create questions with fake views and upvotes?

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:27:59 +0000

When a question is created, it is started with 1 view (actually it's 0 views but you are the first views) and 0 votes.

I just don't like zero. Can I make questions with fake views (like 14), and fake upvotes (like 3) ?

I see that, in the database file (https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/blob/78b969da37468e8668559e3ffe23687ae5587129/qa-include/db/install.php), we can manipulate

'upvotes' => 'SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0',
'downvotes' => 'SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0',
'netvotes' => 'SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0',
'lastviewip' => 'VARBINARY(16)', // INET6_ATON of IP address which last viewed the post
'views' => 'INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0',

Can I change those default values other than zero?

How to make it impossible to remove the upvote?

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:21:29 +0000

Some users of my site give upvote and remove. Then give upvote again and remove. Again and again.

The purpose of this is to generate tens or hundreds of notifications and disrupt the user (persecuted) view notifications of messages and comments.

It would be interesting if the vote were impossible to change, to avoid this.

Upvote only for answers, questions still both

Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:25:29 +0000

I want to make it so that answers can only be upvoted but questions remain up or down vote

Questions hotness issue / improvement

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:20:58 +0000

Better questions lead to better conversations. The reason why it seems logical to enable up/down voating questions on Q&A websites.

It just work fine !

but once you put a follow button on question's page things goes wrong because : Following a question signales TOO that the question is good.

And you have two systems that compete ( upvoting, following).

if you look at Quora.com, the relevance of questions is based on the number of people following the question. There is no up/down question's voting. And the founder explains it clairely here : http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-allow-voting-on-questions?redirected_qid=75884

So on Q2A , my suggestion of improvement, is to add "number of followers" to the Questions hotness criteria if administrator choose to disable voting on questions.

[answered] How to make most voted answers to rank higher on the question page ?

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:10:41 +0000

ON this site and on my own site (rubbersurfer.com/qa), if there are multiple answers to a question, answers rank depending on when they were submitted, and not based on the number of up votes (which is kind of illogical, what is the point of voting then?)

So how to make answers rank based on the number of up votes ?

I thought it would be like this by default.

is there an option to remove vote down, such as only vote up^

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:37:33 +0000

sometimes vote down is not required