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by jefecoon 4613 days ago
Thought this very interesting and potentially useful.

I added a suggestion under 'person going through a divorce,' e.g: ''Acknowledge it's going to be a difficult process and transition period, but give them hope they may be happier after''

When I posted my suggestion immediately had 7--8 thumbs-ups & downs. The second it was added to your site...

Let me suggest you either fix your impossible-to-not-notice bug on up/down-voting, __or__ immediately remove your "just add a few numbers..." code which makes it look like your new site has more engagement than it actually does. Since if the point of your site is to let users optimize advice for difficult situations it strikes me as wrong you'd be randomly adding numbers into that equation for the sake of making it look more useful / validated / engaged than it really is. Your 'bug' or whatever else (really) rubs me the wrong way. Fix this bs and good luck.

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This was a huge fuck up. I'm really really sorry that this offended you and I totally understand how it could. I didn't realize it was going to get content which is stupid of me. I'm sorry and I'm fixing it now.
I'm pushing it to heroku now. I made it so its by default 0. It was really just for our presentation. Again, I'm really sorry.