ADD Dislike button

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

Hellluuuuuu

[MistakeNot]

No, thanks. Experience from other forums indicate that such a feature very easily lends itself to abuse. Which is why the general trend is to not have dislike buttons.

[Lambdafish]

No, thanks. Experience from other forums indicate that such a feature very easily lends itself to abuse. Which is why the general trend is to not have dislike buttons.

Abuse in what way? If a point is disagreed on by a lot of people, surely adding a lot of dislikes is a better indicator than flooding the thread with negative comments. Why feed trolls and bump threads back to the top when you can just dislike them and move on.

[Risvertasashi]

Abuse in what way? If a point is disagreed on by a lot of people, surely adding a lot of dislikes is a better indicator than flooding the thread with negative comments. Why feed trolls and bump threads back to the top when you can just dislike them and move on.

Functionally it's also useless. You don't need a dislike button, you can simply see a complaint below it getting a lot of likes if people disagree.

But the honest answer: People dislike anything that disagrees with their (often narrow) worldview, not just "troll" threads. Even posting purely informational stuff gets disliked into oblivion if it's not what people want to hear.

[Canadane]

Hiding controversial comments us a good way to get zero discourse.

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

Hellluuuuuu

[ArkNova]

Not saying everyone but people would rate down just to rate down. Go look at reddit, a good example is today I looked at the final fantasy brave exvius sub reddit and someone got rated down for suggesting a feature that would increase the 5* base unit rate if you went so many times in a row without a 5* base unit. People on the internet can and will be dicks to each other.

[Lambdafish]

Hiding controversial comments us a good way to get zero discourse.

The comments wouldn't be hidden, it would just be an indication to developers when NOT to listen to a thread/person.

People on the internet can and will be dicks to each other.

Because these forums are a ray of sunshine without this? This won't actually affect anything, nobodys comments should be hidden, but we as a community should have some way to alert the devs of an unpopular opinion.

[programcanaan]

The Devs don't need a Dislike button to tell them what is or is not a good idea. The devs take suggestions no matter how big or small and they debate on them. They aren't going off forum majority.

Also number of likes can still serve the same purpose. Scenario: Two members have opposing oppinions Person A has X likes and Person B has Y likes. Whoever has more is obviously popular opinion. People just gotta learn to like what they agree with.

[Brem]

I'm for dislike button.

But there could also be limits on how many dislikes you can put out, if for example one person goes into a thread and starts clicking dislike on each and single reply, that doesn't sound like he does it because he doesn't like it, but rather because he's a troll or similar.

Sure you could do the same with like button, but it's the same thing there.

The reason I'm for a dislike button is that one reply might get many likes, and another might get less likes, but what would happen if the first one with more likes had more dislikes than the second, then the second one is really is the one more liked by the community, if you only have one button, you can't compare one post to another. It's also more often people press dislike than like on a comment, it would give you a better idea how people really think than only getting the likes.

To many people take dislike button as only a negative thing, but it can be a positive thing too.