ADD Dislike button

[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.

[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.

[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.