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Posted by: Halcylon
Posted by: coolmike699
This isn't Facebook. We don't need it. It could be abused.
None of those are valid reasons. I really dislike the "this isn't Facebook" argument because no one can come up with anything to back it up other than "I don't like Facebook."
Just sayin'While I don't just simply say, "this isn't Facebook," it's my opinion that some Facebook features aren't suitable for some sections of this website because the purposes of B.net and Facebook are different.
For Facebook, and even for the file share parts of this website, there's a good reason to find the most popular posts. You want to see what's popular in the community, or a particular subset of it because you're probably going to like it, too.
For a vast majority of the forums on B.net, however, that's not how I use this site. If I'm opening up a thread that asks a question that I want to see an answer to, I don't want to see the most popular response. I want to see the most correct response. In many cases, I feel that it would be far more appropriate to add the kind of functionality seen on many tech support forums where a user can mark a certain answer as "correct" so I can see what the actual answer to the question was.
So, while I usually state it much more clearly than just "this isn't Facebook" my argument is that "this isn't Facebook; I'm here for a reason different than the reason I'm on Facebook, and as such, there is a different function that I think would serve me far better than a like or thumbs up/down option."