We can only upvote now? I feel like I'm on Facebook. I'm sure it isn't their intention, but this feels like a passive-aggressive way of telling adults to play nice.
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Can we please remove the vote buttons?
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LOL!!
I thought I was being punished because I had downvoted a post or two! I guess it's everyone now eh? Well if you are going to go part way, might as well remove voting buttons all together imo.
I thought I was being punished because I had downvoted a post or two! I guess it's everyone now eh? Well if you are going to go part way, might as well remove voting buttons all together imo.
Disappointed to see the down vote removed. It was a way of gauging the opinions of readers, and self balancing. Without the down vote, you should remove the up vote too IMO as it doesn't mean anything anymore.
And yet, ever since it was removed, the idea of it being gone has only been upvoted. The system works, people!
Please bring back the down vote option or if, you are determined not to, get rid of the up option. Having the one without the other is just too Facebookish, as others have said.
Problem is I found any one not does not post the standard Apple worship stuff gets down voted. Or go look in the political forums. We have very right wing posters just down voting anyone who does not agree with them.
I find the down voting was just a way to avoid a discussion.
It seems they bug you a bit as well.
Up vote and no down? Why not just remove them or would swallowing some sort of weird pride and removing them really be that terrible?
I agree. Besides, calling the button an "up" button promotes a tall-person centric view of the world. Why is "up" equated with "good"?
To just expand one thing to slrandall's post, I was thinking that down voting often seems to work when there is CLEAR misinformation in a post. This happens a lot in the MBP forums and I suspect elsewhere.
It seems to me that if the purpose was to alleviate negativity in the forums, removing only the downvote button isn't effective. I am more of a reader/lurker than a poster (love all of the information - I've learned a lot here) and have used the up button to indicate agreement with posts (without a redundant "I agree" post) and the down button to simply downvote negative, bullying, or offensive posts without having to post an argumentative, negative, useless rebuttal. Now as I am reading through new discussions, it seems the effect of removing the down button only is to encourage posters who like to post negatively as now all they see are the "like" votes from other like-minded bullies (unless someone who disagrees is willing to post a rebuttal and thus enter into a pointless argument).
LOL, the arguing never ends. I would have preferred no voting system at all but this is an improvement to the drive-by downvoting that kept happening. It was often inappropriate and just... well, negative.
Because drugs and boners.
... Why is "up" equated with "good"?
Because drugs and boners.
That's funny the pot calling the kettle black in this case. That is exactly what you did.
How does a downvote tell anyone that there is misinformation in a post or what part of the post contains misinformation? It doesn't. If there's misinformation in a post, the only helpful way to deal with it is to post a response, indicating what part of the post contains misinformation and offering the right information. With all the abuses of the system, a downvote doesn't even suggest that misinformation exists, as explained earlier.
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I'm going to have to officially protest calling the button the "up" button by going and buying another Mac.
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You're right, but there is a suggestion with lots of downvotes that many people think an alternate view exists. In the case of incorrect information (optical drives exist in rMBPs [when they do not]), tons of downvotes will give an inline suggestion that one should continue reading. It's not always the case that one should have to read through N posts in order to get any suggestion that something might be just completely incorrect in a previous post. So downvotes are often suggestive that misinformation may exist.
I agree that a follow up comment that corrects the information is useful. It's even more useful for people to correct their own misinformation appropriately. But that has not happened in so many cases of blatantly wrong information. So the downvoting mechanism can be useful for these inline indicators.
Most likely people will then complain that they are ''YouTube-ing'' the system.
You can't please everyone.
What is wrong with being negative about stuff that is wrong?
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It seems to me that if the purpose was to alleviate negativity in the forums, removing only the downvote button isn't effective. I am more of a reader/lurker than a poster (love all of the information - I've learned a lot here) and have used the up button to indicate agreement with posts (without a redundant "I agree" post) and the down button to simply downvote negative, bullying, or offensive posts without having to post an argumentative, negative, useless rebuttal. Now as I am reading through new discussions, it seems the effect of removing the down button only is to encourage posters who like to post negatively as now all they see are the "like" votes from other like-minded bullies (unless someone who disagrees is willing to post a rebuttal and thus enter into a pointless argument).
It is really just a move to disenfranchise disagreement. If you agree you get the multiplier of having your agreement aggregated and summised. If you disagree you have a higher barrier to expression and you viewpoint is dispersed.
A more interesting move would have been to make votes a limited resource and thus make them a more meaningful expression of opinion.
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