Duplicate [Suggestion] Dis - Like
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HannahP
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As the admin of forums about scooters, hamsters and leprechauns, I feel you are categorizing me and my people, and I take great offense at your blanket damnation, sir!
Your little debate forum becomes heated, does it? Ha, you wouldn't last a minute in one of our leprechaun sighting threads. And did you know there are 22 different distinct species of hamster? No, of course you didn't. How dare you! How dare you indeed.
Apokalupsis
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Peggy
in memoriam 2016
We like to be positive.
Shelley
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We like to be positive.
Well said peggy couldn't have said it better myself.
Positivity breeds efficiency and stamps out procrastination.
Peggy
in memoriam 2016
amen sista!Well said peggy couldn't have said it better myself.
Dean
in memoriam
[My personal opinion only]
Personally I could *not* imagine trying to manage a forum that allowed 'dislikes'.
They are publicly viewable. Groups of people would band together, then start playing games. Then it would bleed over to other websites where they would discuss things privately and plan their next move.
Without the dislike it avoids all of that.
Personally I could *not* imagine trying to manage a forum that allowed 'dislikes'.
They are publicly viewable. Groups of people would band together, then start playing games. Then it would bleed over to other websites where they would discuss things privately and plan their next move.
Without the dislike it avoids all of that.
HannahP
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Ho ho ho - I'll bet that kind of thing has them rolling on the floor at your Algonquin Round Table fantasy conventions. Right after a rousing Quidditch match and movie screenings where you all shout the continuity errors at the screen.
I surrender! I surrender to your superior intellect!
We like to be positive.
If I post "I got an F on my exam", you can only like that. That's nothing positive. I think you guys fail to see that dislike can be used as something positive.
If people would start liking that post I'd feel like they're mocking me. If they instead could dislike it, I'd feel like they actually care.
Dean
in memoriam
If I posted I got an F on my exam, and someone liked the post, my first reaction of what was meant would be 'I understand, I get them too, sorry you are having a rough day'.
If there was a dislike and they disliked that post then my first reaction might be 'I am having a rough day and now you are making it worse?'
That would be my reaction.
Shelley
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That's a terrible example. If I got an F in an exam and was stupid enough to post that on a forum I wouldn't expect anything less than people to state that you are indeed thick as two short planks of the finest wood. Sorry, but if you posted this on any forum exactly what kind of reaction would you be expecting? the hand of condolence? In my experience the hand of condolence is best served in those erection problem commercials when the wifey comforts her husband who's probably thinking to himself "please don't give me the hand of condolence".
If someone gets an F then this deserves a reply like "try harder" and stop posting on the forum looking for sympathy and/or the hand of condolence becaue right there people will think right off the bat "oh no poor sod has erection problems" and that F would be the least of your worries.
Sorry I just don't see your point being conveyed across that is having any merit.
We obviously have very different interpretations of that situation as I would feel a lot better if someone disliked a post like that.
Again, I would never ever activate a dislike system on my forums since the majority of the forum members are around 15y.o boys that clearly can't handle the fact that they have had their content disliked as proven when we activated negative rep. However, it SHOULD be included because as it is now the "how I feel about this content" -system is only half-done. It's naive to think that we only like stuff. We always dislike things.
For instance, I dislike the fact that you don't get my point and I'd probably dislike your post. I think that most people often take this way too seriously though and the fact that I would dislike your post DOESN'T mean that I dislike YOU. I have nothing against you. But like I said, some members just can't handle the fact that they had their content disliked. This doesn't mean that it shouldn't be included as an option. Of course it should be possible to turn OFF both dislike and like.
Again, I would never ever activate a dislike system on my forums since the majority of the forum members are around 15y.o boys that clearly can't handle the fact that they have had their content disliked as proven when we activated negative rep. However, it SHOULD be included because as it is now the "how I feel about this content" -system is only half-done. It's naive to think that we only like stuff. We always dislike things.
For instance, I dislike the fact that you don't get my point and I'd probably dislike your post. I think that most people often take this way too seriously though and the fact that I would dislike your post DOESN'T mean that I dislike YOU. I have nothing against you. But like I said, some members just can't handle the fact that they had their content disliked. This doesn't mean that it shouldn't be included as an option. Of course it should be possible to turn OFF both dislike and like.
twhiting9275
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The world is not full of 'like'. Reality is a mix of both.
If people can't handle 'dislikes', let them disable it, but reality is hardly only about 'like'.
If people can't handle 'dislikes', let them disable it, but reality is hardly only about 'like'.
Forsaken
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And you are in no way obligated to like anything you do or do not like, and you are perfectly capable of making your dislike known through a post, which is generally greatly more efficient then just clicking a button and being done with the whole thing.
Your idea is flawed. That same thing can be applied to the "like". You are perfectly capable of making your "like" known through a post, which is generally greatly more efficient than(notice what I did there?) just clicking a button and being done with the whole thing.
Forsaken
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If someone agrees with a post, but has no input, it allows them a way to say that.
However, if someone disagrees with the post, chances are almost always going to be that they'll respond and post their disagreement. Your post being a perfect example of this
.I honestly do not care whether it is added or not, I'm more tired that it is still being brought up when Mike/Kier have stated in the past that they'll re-think its inclusion into the platform.
Peggy
in memoriam 2016
And on the other hand, if I disliked a post like that, I'd feel like I was reprimanding the person for getting the F. So I wouldn't use either like or dislike.
If someone agrees with a post, but has no input, it allows them a way to say that.
However, if someone disagrees with the post, chances are almost always going to be that they'll respond and post their disagreement. Your post being a perfect example of this
/dislike the fact that you disagree with me but has no input since it's obvious you've made up your mind(we all have different needs afterall) - ohwait... that's not possible.
You're beating a dead horse here. The F thing was just an example - perhaps a bad one - but only an example nonetheless. My point was that disliking something isn't always a negative thing. It's also something that can be used instead of agreeing. An(other) example of this is someone making a post "Gah, <insert candidate> just got elected as president
". Clearly he's upset about that fact. Liking that post would be wrong. Disliking it would make more sense - that is if you agree that it's a bad thing that the person got elected as president. Also, to refer to what Forsaken said, if you don't really have any input to the matter, other than saying that you agree, disliking is the solution.Similar threads
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