ADD Dislike button

[Ririta]

Denizens of a certain elitist forum are the biggest reasons why this should not ever happen. They turned Allakhazam's forum into a clusterf*ck and wouldn't have any reservations about taking this forum into the sewer.

Isn't Zam dead?

[Solarra]

No, I don't support this idea.

To the people saying it won't be abused, just take a look at Reddit and WoW.
The Downvote button in Reddit is supposed to be for posts that are off-topic or don't contribute to the discussion but since it enables people to hide posts they disagree with, it gets abused. Despite numerous reminders that it is not a dislike button, a lot of well-constructed but controversial arguments get hidden along with any replies.
In WoW the downvote button is for expressing dislike but again, it's abused and people use it to shut down debate.
Lovely as our FFXIV community is, we're still human and I'm fairly sure downvote button would be abused here in a similar fashion if one was introduced.

Your idea isn't getting a lot of support OP, yet it's still on the front page and people are debating it. That's how a forum ought to work. If people had the option to downvote, your thread might have been hidden and we would not be having this debate.

[Xlantaa]

This will become like reddit. Down-voting because don't agree with comment. Better not, thanks.

[basketofseals]

Honestly I don't even like the like button. A pretty important part of boards is to foster discussion, which is pretty hard when people's opinions can be skewed before they even read what's written.

[Nixxe]

In WoW the downvote button is for expressing dislike but again, it's abused and people use it to shut down debate.

The funny thing is the original description of the downvote and how to use it was all about downvoting nonconstructive posts. It was meant to promote quality posting, but I think Blizzard realized that wasn't going to happen and perhaps found some other value for it, which resulted in it being renamed the dislike button.

[Dreggit]

The functionality of such features is dependant on the customization available to the forum client and the version.

That in mind, this forum is a lightly modified vbulletin client. Exactly what version of vbulletin, I don't know, but ithe s possible that it's not possible depending on the version client.

If wrote knew the client version you could more easily suggest modifications that are available within that version.

[basketofseals]

The funny thing is the original description of the downvote and how to use it was all about downvoting nonconstructive posts. It was meant to promote quality posting, but I think Blizzard realized that wasn't going to happen and perhaps found some other value for it, which resulted in it being renamed the dislike button.

Well one thing it did get rid of was all of the gold seller spam. Players auto-ban that crap within minutes.

[Nixxe]

Well one thing it did get rid of was all of the gold seller spam. Players auto-ban that crap within minutes.

Given that most gold seller spam on the forums consisted of weak phishing attempts, it's likely that came to an end mostly because of the proliferation of authenticators.

[Vanitas]

OP's salt levels are absurdly high.

[ZioSerpe]

A dislike button, that's just a bad idea...
I would dislike this thread if I had a dislike button... I need my dislike button to say that a dislike button is an idea I dislike