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Do you keep track of your positive/negative ratio?

In other words, do you ever glance at the percentage of thumbs-up to thumbs-down you get on your Questionland responses? Or am I, once again, a lonely overly analytical freak in this?

(and what percentage of your answers have garnered mushrooms?)

(and how come we can't give the really shitty answers a gnome? the mushroom-to-gnome bracketing the question box makes it look like you should be able to!)

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    I'm more of an number of answers to number of thumbs up ratio kind of guy. kitschnsync has a whopping 5:1. Several people are in the 3-4:1 range (Fnarf, Jon, Lee, Kip, elenchos, freijka, and others). I'm a measly 2-1/2:1. However, I have about a 5% mushroom rate, which is better than most. (and I deserve more goddammit!)

    I generally ignore the thumbs down for a few reasons: 1) sometimes it's worthwhile to post a provocative answer, and you just KNOW you'll get several thumbs down, but do it anyway; 2) often, you'll get thumbs down because someone has a different point of view, regardless of whether it's a good answer; and 3) some thumbs down make absolutely no sense, so screw it anyway. That said, I consider myself lucky not to have a thumbs-down stalker.

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    Studiously. I enter my data into a spreadsheet at the end of every day and chart it.

    Ok, not really. But it does bug me when I give an answer I think is dead on, the OP agrees with me, and I don't get a mushroom.

    kitschnsync answered in Questionland FAQs over 2 years ago | Report
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    l do, but only because l picked up a couple of haters and my upvotes to downvotes went from 2-3/1 to almost equal within a couple of weeks, and is still ridiculously high. However, l'm currently in the top five when it comes to mushrooms, so l have to assume that when l'm really trying to give a good answer, someone sees it as that, and rewards me for it. Which makes me feel better.

    l would go for the gnome thing if not for the reasons Lee posted.

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    Most definitely.

    It's vain, of course, but I take pride in my up/down ratio, and I feel bad for friends that seem to have down-vote stalkers docking their answers indiscriminately.

    I've always wanted a daily round-up email containing all up/down-votes in the last 24 hours and the questions/answers they went to.

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    I like your cat.

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    I notice them.
    But I don't obsess about them.

    However, I've noticed a pattern. If I express a personal concern that differs from the others' norm on this board, I'll almost universally rake in thumbs down... a lot. (Screw them. It's what I THINK that counts!)

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    Not only do I track, I've got an alternate account I use specifically when I want to respond in a way that will be inflammatory. I don't use it much and it's ratio is closer to 2:1 than I would've guessed, but my normal account has busted through 4:1, I hope I can keep this high ratio, and one of these days pick up a mushroom or three.

    B Strand answered in Questionland FAQs over 2 years ago | Report
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