Rate up/down

[Hvinire]

Keep in mind, just to be clear to everyone, the system does not include a "dislike" button.

[Korpg]

The system was a bad idea on FFXIAH.com, and there is a lot of proof in that.

Even now, they said that they are going to remove posts after a few negatives, so that made the system even worse.

Having a "like" only feature isn't all that great either, I think the forums here should just have a "report" button and leave it like that, because a "like" button will just be abused. "Popular" posters will just have their friends continue to hit "like" to boost their ego.

[Coldbrand]

Yeah, I don't care for this crap. If someone disagrees with the hive mind then they are sileneced, no thanks.

[Karbuncle]

Hvinire only talked about like buttons, no dislike button.

read my very first sentence

[ShadowHeart]

after re-reading and noticing he said an UNLIKE button and not dislike i see where i mistook that wouldn't be so bad but still not needed i think just do a search for new posts its pretty easy to see which ones are favored in discussions normally but in this case don't care either way as long as not a flaming fest to degrade people for their user name is fine with me

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Yeah, I don't care for this crap. If someone disagrees with the hive mind then they are sileneced, no thanks.

1. If there is no group effort at message moderation, then sorting through the useless and inane posts in the hopes of finding something worth reading is necessarily an individual effort.

1. Sorting through posts to find ones worth reading is never worth the effort! This is an immutable law of the internet. If you haven't learned this yet, go cancel your AOL account because you won't like what you'll find. Even being "something worth reading" still isn't "something worth searching for."

Maybe some posts will get "silenced" by the "hivemind." The alternative is that everyone gets effectively silenced because nobody bothers to listen to anything said in the entire forum. The only possible difference is that, in the former, nobody gets their precious sense of self-importance hurt by seeing that nobody else cares about their "me too!" post with their 800 pixel tall signature graphic.

[Orson]

I much prefer if SE just spent time doing polls. Ingame polls would be best but even on the forums it might be nice.

The only reason I see having a like option would be to have an interview forum. Basically people could ask questions and the top 10 rated questions would be answered. If the first question is about making a cheese we know that it's pointless to have questions.

[Alhanelem]

Polls are built in to vBulletin (which is what the forum is powered by). They are turned off. SE doesn't need to "work on them." they're already there, and they're choosing not to use it.

[Orson]

Polls are built in to vBulletin (which is what the forum is powered by). They are turned off. SE doesn't need to "work on them." they're already there, and they're choosing not to use it.

I'm not talking about player created polls.

[Duelle]

There are many sites that use this feature, such as Digg, Reddit and even FFXIAH. Basically, a button where you rate a person's post up and down.I think it would be a nice addition to the site.

No thanks. Rating systems are basically popularity contests and give way to hive mentality. You think contrary to the hive, your posts get rated down into oblivion. The way these forums currently are have actually allowed me to post on things using tones that I cannot in other sites because the hive basically sees my post, nukes it to the ground and leaves whatever I said unviewable.

If you want a way to control trolling, all you need is really a report option, which these forums already have.

Maybe some posts will get "silenced" by the "hivemind." The alternative is that everyone gets effectively silenced because nobody bothers to listen to anything said in the entire forum. The only possible difference is that, in the former, nobody gets their precious sense of self-importance hurt by seeing that nobody else cares about their "me too!" post with their 800 pixel tall signature graphic.

It shows that you've never posted on topics that were considered "controversial". I'm a big melee Red Mage enthusiast. I used to get chains of rate downs the moment I brought up melee in a Red Mage thread because no one wanted to talk about it. The hive was happy with their back line role, while I was part of a group that wanted to improve front line quality of life and couldn't because the "hive" wouldn't allow it. Not to mention rating gives trolls more power over what gets posted and how they affect discussion threads, not less.