Karma system in the official forums?

[Shougun]

People don't like dissenting opinions; being told their wrong. Same reason many yell "troll" if someone has an opinion they don't like. Having tons of upvotes on Reddit probably makes some feel like they have some sort of 'status', It's addictive. Many people aren't necessarily looking for actual discussion, just those things to reinforce their own opinions as fact.

That also ties into a shift in presentation styles, from calm and attention to detail (at least the potential for it) to more clickbait / yellow journalism - getting the smack down in, is something people both like doing and spectating. Quippy, less useful, more biased information, yay........ yaayyy... us... lol. Primal part of people likes the blood sport and their team winning, information be damned xD.

Someone might spend a lot of time to layout this nice groundwork and another person will go in with a two word reply and 'totally own them!!1!1!11' and while you might have something sort of like that currently at least the system doesn't hide posts and elevate the silliness of such actions. Post still there, nothing hidden, maybe get some upvotes but you can't do much in terms of hiding the info without spamming / derailing (which the moderators do and have punished users for). Although that's why I wondered what would happen if they hid likes, makes it even more less rewarding for people to make the less contributing 'smack down' posts.

[Vahlnir]

People don't like dissenting opinions; being told their wrong. Same reason many yell "troll" if someone has an opinion they don't like. Having tons of upvotes on Reddit probably makes some feel like they have some sort of 'status', It's addictive. Many people aren't necessarily looking for actual discussion, just those things to reinforce their own opinions as fact.

The thing is, there actually is some regular trolls around here, and I'd wager at least half of what you may see as an opinion some of us don't like is actually someone trolling...or just someone looking for attention, even if it's negative. The premises of some threads really are a spectacle in and of themselves. If some of these are legit opinions, I weep for humanity.

[Xia_Thas]

If some of these are legit opinions, I weep for humanity.

Something something November

[Vahlnir]

Something something November

[Ammokkx]

getting the smack down in, is something people both like doing and spectating.

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Although that's why I wondered what would happen if they hid likes, makes it even more less rewarding for people to make the less contributing 'smack down' posts.

hey- hey!

I have some killer one-liners, don't take my talents away from me :c

[Imora]

To be fair, isn't trolling against the rules? Do the mods respond to reports? And can they discern trolling from dissenting opinion?

I don't feel we need a dislike feature to protect from trolls.

[Sotaris]

Do the mods respond to reports?

Seems that way.

[Dzian]

Isn't that essentially what the medals are. The blue ones are based on the number of posts the red ones based on reputatuion or something like that.

So if you have a lot of blue medals but no red ones you post a lot but your rep sucks.

If all your medals are red then your rep is solid.

I don't actually know the specifics because I've basically never cared. but seem to recall it beingsomething along those lines at least

[ItMe]

Isn't that essentially what the medals are. The blue ones are based on the number of posts the red ones based on reputatuion or something like that.

So if you have a lot of blue medals but no red ones you post a lot but your rep sucks.

If all your medals are red then your rep is solid.

I don't actually know the specifics because I've basically never cared. but seem to recall it beingsomething along those lines at least

I thought it had to do with post count...

[VictorTheed]

Yeah I'd rather not creep closer and closer to China's social credit score system, we got post history if we wanna find out what kind of poster someone is.