Petition for new Forum Button: Dislike

[Amador]

This forum is due for Dislike Button that rates a persons post down on a separate side that shows how many people DISLIKED, as well as how many people LIKED the post.

I feel that "Messengers"/Forum Admins simply skim over subjects.

If the idea and work ethic is to "Pick and Choose" a certain post, find a thought in it. Write it down, then eye ball a % saying, "30% of people seemed to have disliked that idea" If that is all that is submitted to the Dev Team.

Then perhaps a "Dislike" feature would better "ease" the job strain on forum admins. If they could just actually tally up the # of Dislikes vs Likes.

It's getting really sad when you log onto here, after you actually spend some time trying things and testing things on test sever only to find that your opinions, thoughts and concerns don't really go as far as to bend, touch, stress, or even concern the Dev Team.

This is not just a personal idea, this is a collective idea from multiple people. It's not just the NA side, the JP side has a long list of complaints regarding the lack of attention, and care that the forum admins, and devs give towards our Feed Back.

Like this Post if you agree that we should have a "Dislike" Button for clairty.

[Svens]

Can we dislike dev posts?

[Amador]

Can we dislike dev posts?

No sir, currently they have a very friendly button called "Like", you can remove that and select "Unlike" but it doesn't give a red (-1) or something when done.

However, that's also one of the reasons I would like for us to have a "Dislike" Button. So that we can see how many people truly disagree with the direction the Devs want to push Vana'diel.

[hideka]

Can we dislike dev posts?

if we could dislike i think the last weaponskill post would have had 10000+ dislikes.

[Kalilla]

Believe me, a dislike button will only be abused and used to harass members.

Don't even think people will know better, that will never be the case on any forum.

[Tamoa]

Believe me, a dislike button will only be abused and used to harass members.

Don't even think people will know better, that will never be the case on any forum.

This.

Biggest problem is people start liking/disliking based on the poster and not the content, and groups of people conspiring to rate down someone they don't like regardless of the thought or idea in the post. Although some people like eachother's posts because they're friends, the worst that can happen is that the likes have no benefit. With dislikes, however, there is more potential for abuse and damage to be done.

The devs specifically added the "like" button so that people who don't have much to say other than "good idea" or "i like this idea" can do so without actually posting. People who dislike a post can instead simply not click the like button, and express their disdain with a textual post.

And this.

[Atomic_Skull]

Believe me, a dislike button will only be abused and used to harass members.

Don't even think people will know better, that will never be the case on any forum.

I approve of this idea.

[scaevola]

Believe me, a dislike button will only be abused and used to harass members.

Don't even think people will know better, that will never be the case on any forum.

Nonsense. Numerous substantive forums use up-and-down-rating, and they are productive aggregators of good information way more often than they're invitations to abuse. Zam and AH are two major examples that apply to FFXI specifically, and even WoW's playerbase, so often merrily described by FFXI players as a cesspool, makes totally productive use of one in the comment threads on wowhead.

[Kalilla]

Nonsense. Numerous substantive forums use up-and-down-rating, and they are productive aggregators of good information way more often than they're invitations to abuse. Zam and AH are two major examples that apply to FFXI specifically, and even WoW's playerbase, so often merrily described by FFXI players as a cesspool, makes totally productive use of one in the comment threads on wowhead.

Nope, AH got removed because people were abusing the system as well.

It will never work on any forum the way it was intended, people will always abuse, harass, and grief other members.

A dislike option for regular members is never a good idea in any situation.

[scaevola]

Nope, AH got removed because people were abusing the system as well.

Rate-downs are still available on individual item entries, and they are quite useful for parsing information.

Anyway, if you're that concerned about it, a 10-a-month limit on dislikes is still better than not having them at all.