Forum update! Feedback and incentive thread.

[Theodric]

Unfortunately anything related to a 'dislike' button would be abused. I don't bother with Reddit for that very reason - any opinion that is contrary to the 'norm' has a habit of being down-voted even when it's presented in a perfectly civil manner. Even in threads that specifically ask something along the lines of which character people like best. I believe Blizzard implemented a dislike function over on their forums only to later remove it due to abuse.

[SturmChurro]

Unfortunately anything related to a 'dislike' button would be abused. I don't bother with Reddit for that very reason - any opinion that is contrary to the 'norm' has a habit of being down-voted even when it's presented in a perfectly civil manner. Even in threads that specifically ask something along the lines of which character people like best. I believe Blizzard implemented a dislike function over on their forums only to later remove it due to abuse.

Yep. Can't even post on the FFXIV reddit board because of it. Worthless. "Dislike" is useless. I like how the likes work on this forum, they don't mean anything at all (in the grand scheme of things - rather than "Farming karma" or whatever on reddit).

[Omymy]

Yep. Can't even post on the FFXIV reddit board because of it. Worthless. "Dislike" is useless. I like how the likes work on this forum, they don't mean anything at all (in the grand scheme of things - rather than "Farming karma" or whatever on reddit).

In this forum people vote more on the person than on their message. That's when they don't do it to support their little SJW group.

I don't really care about the likes at all.

[SturmChurro]

In this forum people vote more on the person than on their message. That's when they don't do it to support their little SJW group.

I don't really care about the likes at all.

Yeah, likes don't mean anything. I only really see them useful here for things like suggestions to the devs or something like that. Otherwise useless in actual discussion, and inhibits it on places like reddit - literally since getting too many dislikes means your posts are hidden.

[LeoLupinos]

Unfortunately anything related to a 'dislike' button would be abused. I don't bother with Reddit for that very reason - any opinion that is contrary to the 'norm' has a habit of being down-voted even when it's presented in a perfectly civil manner. Even in threads that specifically ask something along the lines of which character people like best. I believe Blizzard implemented a dislike function over on their forums only to later remove it due to abuse.

A super yes to you.
I really dislike reddit, because the downvotes actually mean something there for own harm.
I believe if they add this function as a option then you can determine if your post is only for likes, or a voting between like or dislike, without impacting negativelly your account like the Karma system.

In the WoW forum, there were apparently people who claimed they have quit the game and yet stayed in the forum to post complaints about the game. Some of that might just be due to their subscription still having time, but it can be a legitimate issue.

If you have feedback to give, then you can give it within the time your subscription is active. Even if you only came back for one month, that's plenty of time to leave feedback in the forum after trying out the game again.

As for your other points:

I'm not sure what you mean by similar to Reddit, but I hope they don't change the actual message board format as I like reading a thread through once. Hiding threads/posts should be per user basis.

And that brings me to the negative reaction. I don't like how, in WoW forum, report functions are used to automatically hide posts. Again, hiding posts/threads should be individual user choice. (Of course, the problem in WoW forum is that it currently has no dislike button, so people abused the report function.)

That said, I personally don't think like/dislike buttons should be used at all. If you agree/disagree with someone's post, feel free to post and, hopefully, contribute to the thread by adding your own thoughts rather than just press a button.

Sure, the hide posts is only for individual user choice, as I said, to ease my track of the posts I care for. But thanks for the input, I have added a clarification too to my post.

[linay]

I believe Blizzard implemented a dislike function over on their forums only to later remove it due to abuse.

Unfortunately, with their new system, the report function allows people to automatically hide a post for everyone. So people abuse that in place of a dislike button. That's why I prefer a more static message board system.

[Lauront]

Unfortunately anything related to a 'dislike' button would be abused. I don't bother with Reddit for that very reason - any opinion that is contrary to the 'norm' has a habit of being down-voted even when it's presented in a perfectly civil manner. Even in threads that specifically ask something along the lines of which character people like best. I believe Blizzard implemented a dislike function over on their forums only to later remove it due to abuse.

Hilariously, that site claims to be concerned about "vote manipulation" but is okay with posts being bombarded into oblivion because they disagree with its flock of sheep.