Recommend/pan posts and comments

[paul1149]

Title
Recommend/pan posts and comments

Short, concise description of the idea
Users should have the ability to Recommend and maybe also Pan, posts and comments.

Full description of the ideaEach post or comment would have a Rec or Pan link. Recs and pans would be tallied and displayed

Comments

[right]

[gerg]

LiveJournal is not slashdot.

[rebelsheart]

+1

[harrywells]

This is a suggestions community...

[the_xtina]

 

[ex_uniquewo]

Reccing is not just clicking on a link. If you want recs go to rec comms or create yours.

[ursamajor]

EXACTLY.

When I think of "recs," they're far more qualitative. They're actual *posts* to your journal or to a community, saying, "Y'all should read this because X, Y, Z."

Recs as the OP defines them makes it a sheer useless-to-me numbers game - sure, 10 people may have recced a given post, but that gives me no information on why that means it's a valuable post for *me* to read.

[adudeabides]

A tangental aspect of this number system is that since posts are rec'd by numbers, those communities and individuals with large numbers of viewers will always come-out on top. A person with a dozen friends may write the most insightful post evar on the LJ, and it would easily be buried by a vapid post to, oh, I don't know, some celebrity-oriented community or LJ-celeb posting whatever they post.

Popular doesn't necessarily equal quality, so the system is flawed if the intended purpose is to recommend quality or relevant material.

[sleepfighter]

No.