I spend most of my time on the iphone boards, and I must admit, given the amount of trolling and the ridiculously NEGATIVE posting style of so many regulars, I must say: it's too bad we can no longer "vote down" our fellow posters.
I agree; downvoting is useful when someone makes a post that shouldn't be flagged, but you still want to get the message across.
The message doesn't come across at all when down voting occurs because someone disagrees or simply doesn't like the a swer given.
-1 vote
That's the point.
IMO the current state of the voting system is silly. If we could up vote a comment, we should be able to down vote a comment as well. Either do it all or no at all.
No it's not. Disagreeing with someone shouldn't result in down voting. Man up and debate it; don't down vote and walk away.
I couldn't care less, the voting never bothered me one way or the other. If it did I'd probably try to kiss more ass.
I prefer thanks to votes as that seems to mean something.
Actually, it's full of them.This is not reddit a.k.a a place for degenerates.
That's my point. The voting system, as it once was, was a breeding ground for passive people to say something without saying it at all.I agree with you.
Having the 'down vote' meant that some of the threads sometimes snowballed into expressions of sheer negativity. Worse, as jessica says, far too often someone down-voted a post simply because they disagreed with it, rather than because they thought the post was appalling or had expressed some disagreeable or dreadful sentiment.
I can handle people not liking what I say or do. That is my autobiography in less than a minute. I simply don't think this site works with voting. It's absurd and used by too many who dislike what is said, despite accuracy, in lieu of actual words. It was an easy way out for those who lack the basic intelligence necessary to formulate mindful sentences to get their point across.Some people cant handle the truth... Users get offended when not everyone agrees with them.
Its pathetic... Very much like ebays system of sellers not being able to leave buyers negative feedback
They do nothing; up or down. I agree with you.Yesterday there was a thread. The first reply was some variant on "cool story bro". It had a vote of ZERO. I think, if it had a -4, then perhaps the next 5 replies wouldn't have been some other adolescent meme or variant of "cool story bro".
Like it or not, these boards (particularly the iphone boards) are full of teens. Teens respond to peer pressure. Seeing the first "cool story bro" voted down does have an impact.
And yes, it gets misused. I agree.
Perhaps eliminating the numbers all together....
Yesterday there was a thread. The first reply was some variant on "cool story bro". It had a vote of ZERO. I think, if it had a -4, then perhaps the next 5 replies wouldn't have been some other adolescent meme or variant of "cool story bro".
Yesterday there was a thread. The first reply was some variant on "cool story bro".
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