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Completed Suggestion From RP
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Complete Date Feb 04, 2023 10:56am
Short Description
Anti-Endorsements
Long Description
Allow an "Anti-Endorsement" type to indicate opposition to a specific Candidate.

This indicates that the Candidate will be opposed in all circumstances - primary or general election.

It should not be used to support opposition to any/most candidates of a party. It should not be used to indicate opposition to all candidates not endorsed.

This has potential for abuse, so be careful.
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D:1989RBH ( 5686.1743 points)
Sun, February 5, 2023 03:48:28 AM UTC0:00
I think this feature leaves the media endorsements blank

see here (under Roos): [Link]

or the Chicago Mayor's race: [Link]

 
BEER:10271WSNJ ( 478.4198 points)
Sun, February 5, 2023 11:40:57 PM UTC0:00
I'm going to test this out on a race so if you see me messing with it don't think I ignored your message.

 
I:9951E Pluribus Unum ( -228.6384 points)
Wed, July 19, 2023 01:57:31 AM UTC0:00
I have a question about the Anti-Endorsement Feature:

I know when this was first implemented there was a warning of abuse, I just want to gauge the threshold of "Abuse", would it simply be spamming the feature to Anti-Endorse a ton of people or is it using it too much in general the issue?

And/Or should users not use it at all?

 
D:1RP ( 5618.8218 points)
Wed, July 19, 2023 03:04:43 PM UTC0:00
It should be rare that Users use the function. I know it's difficult without hard line rules, but I want to leave it open for the occasional use.

It should almost never be used in general elections by Users unless there are more than say 3 Candidates and you really are okay with all but one.

Partisan primaries can have it used more, but still limit it.

Absolutely do not Anti-Endorse all the Candidates you have not Endorsed. That is obvious abuse. There should always be at least one that has neither. Preferably, neither should be the majority.

 
D:1RP ( 5618.8218 points)
Wed, July 19, 2023 03:08:32 PM UTC0:00
I also really don't want it used in partisan primaries of parties you don't generally support to Anti-Endorse everyone except quirky candidates that won't win but you consider "less bad" than the rest.

For instance, Democrats Anti-Endorsing everyone in the GOP primary except for Liz Cheney or Republicans Anti-Endorsing everyone in the Dem Primary except for RFK Jr. That's abuse. We get it.