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Can we please remove the vote buttons?
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I am blissfully vote buttons-free. Yes, the side-effect is that I now no longer see ads, but that's a price arn pays, not me
I am blissfully vote buttons-free. Yes, the side-effect is that I now no longer see ads, but that's a price arn pays, not me
I say remove the down votes .... look at the poll results -- put together REMOVE and LIKE BUTTON ONLY and you get a clear winner.
Thought something was wrong with Chrome. Nice to see the down buttons gone.
Hopefully this won't cause any -1 post replies.
Hopefully this won't cause any -1 post replies.
I was looking for this thread. Good idea! From the pool, though, it seems there are allot of vote-hunters. The only step craziest than this, is to create some kind of MMO leveling based on voting.
Now this is a hilarious idea. We could have "healers" who just upvote flagging posts, "tanks" who post to draw aggro, and "DPSs" who spam down votes.
Solid move.
Lurking and reading as I often tend to do these days, the most irritating thing about the down votes is that discussion of being downvoted would sometimes become a running sub-topic of the thread. It would really get under many people's skins.
Making it impossible to uprate your own posts would also be an additional improvement, if this feature is to have any integrity at all.
Mad Mac Maniac
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Yeah... I think all it really accomplishes is hurt feelings. But I know I'm going to wish I could downvote things.
Sidenote: it's going to take a while to get used to seeing just the up button. It looks odd. For a while I thought my work computer/internet was just being crappy again and not showing the down.
I've always just assumed any post with +1 was from the poster and, if it's more than that, then others agreed with them.
With people only being allowed to vote once, I don't think it matters too much in a large scale.
Mad Mac Maniac
macrumors 601
But then how am I going to be able to feel good about myself without being able to always see that +1 by my name? I propose an option to auto +1 yourself on every post you make!
This is genuine....I DIDN"T NOTICE until I read the thread...A great move though...Thanks arn....Shows how you can actually train your eyes to avoid the thing though!
Mad Mac Maniac
macrumors 601
while i'm not a fan of the voting buttons, i think up only is much better than both. its like what your mother always said: 'if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all' motto.
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