- Sergeant Kyuun
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Posted by: Dustin 6047
Troll confirmed. I never even insulted you
Posted by: Dustin 6047
OP - You're a dumbass with the reading comprehension skills of a second grader.
Can someone tell me what's wrong with these two, this made me LOL hard.
Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Posted by: Sergeant Kyuun
Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Posted by: Sergeant Kyuun
I can see many bad things happening if this was implemented. If only thumbs up, then I guess it would be fine from my perspective. But with Thumbs down? Yeahh, terrible idea there. What about a nonvisible dislike or thumbs down? What I mean by that is that when you dislike something, it detracts from the positive rating, and doesn't show: "Ten likes, Two dislikes". This is why a +, - system would work better because it would literally just be the +/- on your post instead of making likes look like they never existed.
Anyway, then, when the post WOULD be going negative (has hit 0 and is still getting disliked), the system keeps track of those dislikes and takes them into account but still displays you as zero. That way your dislikes still count no matter the person's posts's current rating, and the person doesn't have that dislikedness displayed either to them or the whole community.That's basically the Report system we have now though. No it's not? It's a like system with a dislike system.
The report system is for rule breaking, not disliking.And what's the use of having a dislike system if there's no repercussions to it? Someone could just troll all day and get dislikes with no real fear of losing anything.
However, if the "dislikes" had a consequence, such as if a person racks up enough on one post, the person's post is reviewed by a moderator where they can make an action.
See what it looks like? The report system is basically another variation of a like/dislike system. The report button now would probably be the dislike button where a person would be sent to a queue for moderators would judge their actions if their post was reported enough.
There can be a "Like" system, but we don't need to have a visible dislike along with it.
The con along with this system is that it promotes elitism. I don't really see people shoving their titles in a person's face anymore, so I don't really see titles as a tool for elitism. However, a visible like system and visible dislike system would definitely promote elitism.
Why would it promote elitism? A person that, for example, is liked by the mods and the employees would receive likes while a person that the mods or the community dislikes would receive down votes. Let's say the person that's popular with both the employees and mods decides to troll. He'll use his "like" reputation to promote his superiority.
It's the other way around for the dislike system. If a person that is hated by the community posts something that actually promotes discussion and is a good thread, but it's that person, many people would downvote them just because they're not popular with the community.