ADD Dislike button

[TarynH]

No sweetie because im in FFXIV and have my discussion here what im interested for a better forum place

Well sugar-britches, they had a FFXIV ZAM forum too, so it does relate. Basically it worked like this: Didn't like someone? Keep voting down every single post they make/made, and it would result in them becoming "sub-default." Which meant any post they made would be automatically hidden from view of other posters. So basically the majority could silence and shun someone into silence, no matter what the idea or opinion happened to be (good or bad). The best part was that if you were below a certain "value," you couldn't vote in return.

TLDR; a like/dislike system can (and most likely will) be abused.

[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.

[Hen-Hen]

I'd kinda like a dislike button because the forums are full of threads of multiple pages of people going "NOOOOOOO!" at the OP, whereas threads about things which people want are buried because they get liked instead of commented on. And so, we all look like a bunch of whiny babies, instead of being able to just dislike and move on, and stuff that we can agree that we want just fades out, where devs will never see it.

[Lambdafish]

I'd kinda like a dislike button because the forums are full of threads of multiple pages of people going "NOOOOOOO!" at the OP, whereas threads about things which people want are buried because they get liked instead of commented on. And so, we all look like a bunch of whiny babies, instead of being able to just dislike and move on, and stuff that we can agree that we want just fades out, where devs will never see it.

This is a very good point. We see more negativity because we can't express disagreement any other way, and it just bumps negative threads back to the top. There needs to be a balance between positive and negative feedback, and we can't have likes for agreement and comments for disagreement because likes don't bump threads, and most of the time I don't want to bump a negative thread anyway.

Negative options on forums have countless times proven to only have negative effects.

/notsigned

Negativity exists anyway on this forum. A dislike button means that the negativity isn't spoken, and doesn't bump the thread back to the top.

[LalaRu]

Negative options on forums have countless times proven to only have negative effects.

/notsigned