I'm not entirely sure if this is the place to request this, so forgive me if I'm inappropriately using the forum.
Now that we have the ability to upvote/downvote the actual forum topic (which is a great feature that I love), could we now show the Topic Score in the Tracker?
This idea hit me while reading a very recent thread that has a very large number of downvotes and a lot of responses stating "I clicked on this thread expecting (this) but unfortunately it's (this)"
I figured, if you can see the Topic Score, people will have a better idea as to what they're about to see.
(i.e. high score = insightful thread, low score = mindless complaining)
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seeing a -50 topic score would just make me want to click to see what all the ruckus is about.
There's always two sides of a coin
But just another reason why you might want to see the Topic Score in the Tracker
I'm all for it, if it's possible.
One downside: the score is tied to the poster's leg count. If people downvoted a thread because of what it became rather than the original post, it would unnecessarily punish the OP. That wouldn't be a problem for the WDBD thread you're talking about, but we've had other discussions that started off fine, and just degraded
Ooh, good point. Hadn't thought of that. The first Dalton thread went rather sharply off the rails about halfway through.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure the votes people give to a thread are more for the original post (the button's right under it) than for what's happening all the way at the bottom of the comment thread. Hard to prove one way or the other, though.
Members shouldn't downvote the OP because the comments went awry. If the turkey legs are properly used, the count on a thread should only be indicative of the quality of the OP, but provide no warning of a squabble over plegarism or downvote usage. I still think it would be helpful to prevent click baiting by title (not that someone would do this intentionally).