Reminder To Please Use Voting Function To Moderate Comments On Vive Le Canada.Ca

If you have a user account on Vive and go into the comments on the main articles, you will see that you can designate comments using a small drop-down menu. Options include things like the comment was "interesting" or "funny" (positive values) or that it was racist or insulting/taunting (negative values). You can choose the designation you believe is appropriate, and by doing so, "vote" for a comment, either voting it "up" or "down". Originally voting was restricted to a small group of users as we worked the bugs out, but now everyone on Vive can vote comments up or down as long as they have a user account. However, you need to have a good "karma" and a positive score on the site to vote, and that "karma" and positive score comes from posting useful and informative comments yourself, which are tracked by the software. Karma is simply a concept used to keep track of user behaviour on this site; most actions actually involve a karma transfer. It's mostly a made up quantity, but it is useful for measuring how much of a contribution a particular user or comment is making to the site. A user who consistently posts good quality items will get more karma. Along with Karma, we keep track of a 'score', which is basically a measure of karma flow. If a user's posts consistently get voted down, that user will have a negative score, and will be unable to vote themselves. The karma and score tracking prevent abuse such as people simply voting comments down all the time for no reason, etc. They also encourage positive posting behaviour, ie posting useful comments. Comments that have been voted down are not shown on the site. The hidden comments have been voted "down" by our admins and voted "down" by members because they are off-topic, spam, break our policy on non-discrimination, are insulting, or are otherwise not useful. This effectively removes such comments from general view on Vive, without moderators needing to actually delete the comments, ie completely censor them. (Moderators still do occasionally delete comments in cases where comments are posted more than once, where spam is posted as a comment, when there is a complaint, or if a comment crosses the line so badly that it needs to be removed completely.) But there are links on each comment, "show comment" or "hide comment". These let you view hidden comments, in case someone's reply makes no sense, or you really want to see what the comment was. Hiding/showing is so you can make your own decisions on the quality of the comments if you like instead of relying on the votes of others. Note that you can also decide the quality of the comments you personally will see on Vive using the "preferences" section of your Vive user account. There we have implemented "thresholds" for viewing comments, which allows any registered users to set the minimum score a comment needs for it to be displayed for them by default. (Anonymous users don't get to choose which comments they see and don't see.) How this works: the default threshold is -100. That means that you will see everything no matter what. If you just want to get rid of the comments that have been voted down (ie deemed not to be useful by the Vive community), you would set it to 0. Anything with a score less than that will be hidden. If you only want to see those comments of special positive worth, you can set it to 1. If you only want to see *really* *really* good comments, you could set it to something like 3 or 4, except if we don't have enough people voting for comments to reach that level, it won't work very well. If you want more information, the entire voting system is also explained in our FAQ, in the moderation and voting section (see top menu for FAQ). Please be aware that this is slightly out of date however; for instance, we do not allow anonymous users to post comments anymore. I just can't empasize enough that the more people use the voting system, the more effective it is, and the better quality of discussion we have on Vive. Lastly, please be aware that this voting system does not apply to the forum. The forum is only accessible to registered users, and we do rely on moderation by moderators to maintain civility for now. We hope to bring in a new forum system in the future.