ADD Dislike button

[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.

[LalaRu]

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

/notsigned

[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.

[TarynH]

I cant believe that whole forum is just full of bunch scumlords only for spam abuse so reason for it to not existing then we can simply take of like button as well and just keep to plain comments :/


Now you get my dislike button because i dont agree with you

Apparently you never visited the FFXI ZAM forums.

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

Apparently you never visited the FFXI ZAM forums.

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

[Nixxe]

Vote systems are forum cancer to begin with. If you add a dislike button, it just results in the formation of a quasi-hive mind comprised of temperamental and easily upset players imposing its will.

[Theodric]

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.

In theory, yes. In practice it just leads to popular opinion drowning out even the most constructive of posts. It happens fairly often over on the FF14 Reddit and, incidentally, a lot of people over there will say stuff purely for the sake of towing the line and 'baiting' likes because they want to feel part of the perceived crowd.

[Stitches1974]

In practice it just leads to popular opinion drowning out even the most constructive of posts. It happens fairly often over on the FF14 Reddit and, incidentally, a lot of people over there will say stuff purely for the sake of towing the line and 'baiting' likes because they want to feel part of the perceived crowd.

Happens a lot on the WoW forums. Someone asks a simple question trying to get help, bunch of dislikes. Yet, the forums trolls will post something and get a bunch of likes.

[Kaethra]

Use a pillow instead. Expressing oneself in a passive aggressive sense isn't healthy, helpful, nor desired. Or take the time and show why you disagree in an educated and calm manner.

[Nixxe]

Happens a lot on the WoW forums. Someone asks a simple question trying to get help, bunch of dislikes. Yet, the forums trolls will post something and get a bunch of likes.

Yeah, and you can get a relatively small group of players who are inordinately upset about some issue and they'll run around spam downvoting everything they disagree with in order to make it look like it's super unpopular, even if the reality is more people are in favor of it, but just don't bother to upvote it.