Would you like a hate button?

[Terxpahseyton]

We have a like button. How about another button. A hate button! One button is not enough in these complex times.

I really miss the down votes on youtube. They were such a necessary quality control. So so necessary. Now it is garbage.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

We have a like button. How about another button. A hate button! One button is not enough in these complex times.

Anything to perpetuate hostilities...

It's honestly not a good idea. If you disapprove of someone's post, you have several options: You can rebut it. You can ignore it. If it violates the forum rules, you can report it. You can do some combination of these.

I've been part of a forum with "downvotes" (a reputation system). It was abused, and led to hostility and anger that ended up with some people leaving, some being banned, and one of the admins being kicked off staff (as he was the worst abuser of all and discovered to his surprise that he wasn't immune from the rules being applied to him). I don't want to see that happen here.

I really miss the down votes on youtube. They were such a necessary quality control. So so necessary. Now it is garbage.

The down votes are still there.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Not for comments. Only dummies.

 

[Ryika]

I was, and still am, against the like button, but at least it fulfills a mostly positive function of showing support.

Dislike-buttons are way worse, and really just a way to make sure people who don't share the generally accepted opinion, feel even less inclined to participate. Implementation of such a button might be the quickest way to take a discussion forum and turn it into an ideological echo chamber.

 

[Perfection]

Only on Twitter

 

[hobbsyoyo]

What @Valessa said

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Not for comments. Only dummies.

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. I was just commenting on a video this morning. Upvotes and downvotes are still there. They aren't as visible as they were before, but they're still there.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

But they do nothing. Before, they were visibly counted, and also changed the order of comments.
The current down-vote-button for comments does nothing, is barely visible. Nobody uses it. It is a faux simile.
Because people were distressed by down-votes
Btw I think the like button does a splendid job. Spread connectedness and harmony. Though sometimes at the expense of someone else.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Something like this?

Spoiler :

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Yes.
Good. Goooood

 

[Valka D'Ur]

But they do nothing. Before, they were visibly counted, and also changed the order of comments.
The current down-vote-button for comments does nothing, is barely visible. Nobody uses it. It is a faux simile.
Because people were distressed by down-votes
Btw I think the like button does a splendid job. Spread connectedness and harmony. Though sometimes at the expense of someone else.

I'm more bothered by downvotes on cbc.ca (the news site I read and comment on every day). Each downvote indicates that there is a Reformacon reading my words and prefers to not understand them, or finds it perfectly okay to be hateful.

On Youtube it's the actual words - the conversation, if you can manage one - that matters to me. I've carried on arguments with certain people for something like two years on a couple of Richard Dawkins pages. I don't really care about the upvotes and downvotes. Trying to get some ridiculous ID'er from the southern U.S. to understand common sense and that the world really doesn't work like her own immediate neighborhood has sometimes been exasperating, but the conversation has taken a cordial and sometimes funny turn at times. I think she and I could probably get along okay if we never discussed religion and science.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Since I don't hate the like button it would be imbalanced to like a hate button.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Gori the Grey]

You know how I feel about this idea?

Well, the site gives me no mechanism for telling you. But if I did, you'd sure hear it from me!

 

[warpus]

Sometimes I want to show approval but don't want to clutter up the forums with my useless post that probably says "I AGREE WITH THIS MORE OR LESS"

Sometimes I want to show hate but then I remember that this is a FAMILY FRIENDLY FORUM AND FAMILIES DON'T LIKE HATE

 

[Broken_Erika]

I suppose there could be several buttons I.E.: Like, Agree, Meh, Dislike, Hate, BURN THE HERETIC!!!!!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I suppose there could be several buttons I.E.: Like, Agree, Meh, Dislike, Hate, BURN THE HERETIC!!!!!

I've got a smiley that would take care of the latter.

 

[Broken_Erika]

We need a smiley consisting of a pair of burning pants.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Sometimes I want to show hate but then I remember that this is a FAMILY FRIENDLY FORUM AND FAMILIES DON'T LIKE HATE

Speak for yourself.. Well, speak for your own family.

 

[Yeekim]

Paradox Forums have "respectfully disagree", which I think works quite well.