Rate up/down

[Hvinire]

Hey all,

Relevant to the above, one of the new features we're looking into implementing will allow everyone to "like" individual threads.

A "like" button will be implemented for each post. You will be able to click the "like" button, once per post, and the total will be displayed. You can also "unlike" a post that you've "liked", should you mistakenly click the button. We feel this is a good alternative to the typical ranking or karma system.

This will also hopefully assist us in accumulating the best and most constructive feedback for the developers.

[Atomic_Skull]

Hey all,

Relevant to the above, one of the new features we're looking into implementing will allow everyone to "like" individual threads.

A "like" button will be implemented for each post. You will be able to click the "like" button, once per post, and the total will be displayed. You can also "unlike" a post that you've "liked", should you mistakenly click the button. We feel this is a good alternative to the typical ranking or karma system.

This will also hopefully assist us in accumulating the best and most constructive feedback for the developers.

Look at how this system is abused on Allakhazam to see why it's a bad idea. On paper it looks like a great idea but in practice it's terrible.

[Rambus]

Hey all,

Relevant to the above, one of the new features we're looking into implementing will allow everyone to "like" individual threads.

A "like" button will be implemented for each post. You will be able to click the "like" button, once per post, and the total will be displayed. You can also "unlike" a post that you've "liked", should you mistakenly click the button. We feel this is a good alternative to the typical ranking or karma system.

This will also hopefully assist us in accumulating the best and most constructive feedback for the developers.

Look at how this system is abused on Allakhazam to see why it's a bad idea. On paper it looks like a great idea but in practice it's terrible.

I think that is why they made the comment like they did, making posts or people down just because they dont like you is a bad system in practice. It would be nice if people did not abuse it

[Hvinire]

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

[Kiba]

Hey all,

Relevant to the above, one of the new features we're looking into implementing will allow everyone to "like" individual threads.

A "like" button will be implemented for each post. You will be able to click the "like" button, once per post, and the total will be displayed. You can also "unlike" a post that you've "liked", should you mistakenly click the button. We feel this is a good alternative to the typical ranking or karma system.

This will also hopefully assist us in accumulating the best and most constructive feedback for the developers.

I like this and will utilize this feature ^^ thank you for giving a heads up.

[RAIST]

Hey all,

Relevant to the above, one of the new features we're looking into implementing will allow everyone to "like" individual threads.

A "like" button will be implemented for each post. You will be able to click the "like" button, once per post, and the total will be displayed. You can also "unlike" a post that you've "liked", should you mistakenly click the button. We feel this is a good alternative to the typical ranking or karma system.

This will also hopefully assist us in accumulating the best and most constructive feedback for the developers.

so long as it is for the original post so it is a vote for the idea, I think it holds a lot of merit. Most of the problems everone is presenting as a con are related to systems that allow you to rate individual posts (and by proxy the user). Voting like/dislike for the THREAD (ie, the original post) is a nice compromise.

[Caria]

It seems to me that it would be applicable to add a "Dislike" or "Hate" button to be able to discourage ideas as well. There are some ideas that I would just never want to see implemented, and I think it might be worth letting us express that too.