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roadbloc

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Aug 24, 2009
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Anyone else noticed that some Demis have added a downvote thing to their avatar? Not sure what it is in aid of, or whether I'm totally wrong on this, but as an ex-demi who joined in on a few of their little games, I call shenanigans.
 
The management of the site frequently use demis to test out new features before they are rolled out to all.
 
Just wanted to point out that Moyank24 is not a Demi(Goddess) or Contributor yet she appears to have same up/ down vote beneath her avatar.

Perhaps Arn wants to expand the voting to other portions of the site.
 
It appears the avatars are static but voting numbers seem to have changed at midnight ET.
 
The management of the site frequently use demis to test out new features before they are rolled out to all.

That makes sense.

The feature of the up and down vote buttons has attracted a lot of comment (both negative and positive) & some heated discussion in the Site Forum Feedback (& Discussion) section, so I'm not surprised to see it being played around with by Demis.
 
I wouldn't know. I wasn't selected to test out the new feature and none of the other demis replied to my PM about it. Something's going on.

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Looks like it is just photoshopped onto the avatars and not a real vote system. Probably just a game they're playing and manually updating their avatars to suit the votes for what ever they're doing.
 
Looks like it is just photoshopped onto the avatars and not a real vote system. Probably just a game they're playing and manually updating their avatars to suit the votes for what ever they're doing.

That's what I thought as soon as I saw it. They've just added a vote thing to their avatars.
 
I think a better idea would be to keep count of all the upvotes and downvotes on your posts then show an average on your profile.
 
So let me get this straight... this is not a game, but a new feature?
 
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