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[Savage Wolf]

SOL Ranger, on 27 August 2017 - 05:42 PM, said:

You have a dislike button, it's called "post", you just have to reason your response as best you can and we are shown exactly how reasoned or unjustified your dislike for something is.

It is the best system by far.

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

Some ideas really are so blatantly bad and covered by a "git gud" and have already been explained so many times as to why they are wrong that a dislike button would help at this point. Just get one guy to link to the last thread talking about what OP want's nerfed and add in some dislikes to show that people still disagree and mostly to show PGI that people dislike the idea.


Like really, why shouldn't I be able to just dislike a post from the 10th guy asking to nerf LRMs/MGs/Lasers/ballistics/armor/aim/teamwork/communication/vision/forumwarriors/pay/mobility/mistlynx this week?

Half the time if you go and dig up a large number of hard statistics and explain why someone is objectively wrong they just never respond back anyway.

After sitting around here for so many years its tiresome, but I still feel the need to gang up with everyone to shut down a bad idea so that the game doesn't get messed up by bad but unopposed suggestions from a minority while all the other players are happy with the game and wouldn't think to visit this place.

Like really, have you seen some of the ideas people have put out around here? We don't even have polls anymore in GD for some reason, so we can't even ask for a quick agree/disagree anymore without linking it to some other part of the forum no one looks at.

[Alexander of Macedon]

Because the way it works in the majority of cases is as a "I don't like what you said but can't adequately explain why" button.

If you're really desperate, like the posts of someone answering the person you disagree with. Exact same effect.

[MustrumRidcully]

MagicIndex, on 27 August 2017 - 07:03 AM, said:

NERF MG's, NERF LAZER VOMIT, NERF DAKKA, NERF LURMS... etc. Can we NERF the "nerfers" into oblivion? PGI please! Give us DISLIKE BUTTON!

Just double tap the Like This button.

Edited by MustrumRidcully, 28 August 2017 - 12:39 AM.

[B0oN]

Alexander of Macedon, on 27 August 2017 - 12:47 PM, said:

God, no. Dislike buttons are absolute dogshit, they encourage blind, ignorant bandwagoning behavior. They're a cancer that destroys discourse.

So it would be business like usual, neh ?

If you can't elucidate as to why someone is wrong well enough to convince other people, and they're not obviously wrong enough to do so on their own, tough *****

Most people do really like their opinions and rarely, if ever, acknowledge any other opinion as valid, so what were you saying again ?

Basically all reddit-esque formatting is awful and thoroughly detrimental to any sort of constructive dialogue.

The very few times this forum sported any constructive dialogue it kept going, even despite many a try to dereail they ran their constructive course .

[The6thMessenger]

I honestly wouldn't subscribe to this idea.

It's one thing to like ideas without further explanation, but disliking them without explanation just blows.

If you have something against an idea, explain it in a manner that would be concise and would properly illuminate your position. If people can just disagree with a single button, then it could kill discussions. Nobody would point out why your ideas are bad, they would just downvote and move on, and no discussion happened.

[AppleseeN]

Dislike Button or bust!!!

[Pjwned]

Go to reddit if you want dislikes/downvotes.

Problem solved.

[Bud Crue]

You can't have a dislike button on the forums. The COC makes clear that "personal attacks" or even merely being "non-constructive" are banable offenses. Thus, actually using a "dislike button" would be a violation of the COC as it would be inherenly negative, personal and obviously non-constructive (as no further constructive commentary would be needed).

Edited by Bud Crue, 28 August 2017 - 04:54 AM.

[AppleseeN]

GIVE PEOPLE RIGHT TO DISLIKE... protect the cuties.

[Kasumi Sumika]

No, it will encouraging bad bandwagon and mob mentality. Also it can be abused by trolls and alt accounts.

[C4NC3R]

I pressed "Like" for "Dislike button" cause... we need instrument to abuse the community since community is TOXIC.
Yes, this forum is...

Edited by C4NC3R, 28 August 2017 - 06:56 AM.

[Jon Gotham]

Bad idea. A person may get mass neg repped purely for going against mass opinion, even though the mass opinion is wrong.

[Brain Cancer]

All dislike buttons do is encourage alts to be generated in order to downvote a topic into oblivion.

Maybe if accounts cost tenbux each or something...

[Athom83]

In another forum I'm on, we had a "Karma" which was basically a +/- thing. So right under your name on the forums (where location is on these forums), it tells you how many + you've gotten, and all the - as well. On those forums I got a reputation of telling the harsher truths to newer people, which ticked them off despite my intentions of helping them. I ended up with a disproportionate amounts of - Karma simply because newer people didn't like the way I answered their question(s). That was why that system was replaced there with a "thank this post" system (like the "Like this" here).

[Savage Wolf]

This forum is not a popularity contest. It's about arguing for your cause and demonstrate whether or not there is truth to your suggestion or complaint.

If you disagree with someone, it's the same deal. Demonstrate why they are wrong.

[C4NC3R]

Savage Wolf, on 28 August 2017 - 11:15 AM, said:

This forum is not a popularity contest. It's about arguing for your cause and demonstrate whether or not there is truth to your suggestion or complaint.

If you disagree with someone, it's the same deal. Demonstrate why they are wrong.

DISLIKE BUTTON is a good demonstration that some one are wrong, cause since some times arguments are not enough to pierce through 6 feets of Stupidity.

[Savage Wolf]

C4NC3R, on 29 August 2017 - 05:52 AM, said:

DISLIKE BUTTON is a good demonstration that some one are wrong, cause since some times arguments are not enough to pierce through 6 feets of Stupidity.

The levels of stupidity of the other debatee is not relevant. Your arguments are not there to convince the other that he is wrong. It's nice when it does, but more importantly, your argument is read by all the lurkers and the devs. Those are the ones you try to convince.
A dislike button will not do that.

[C4NC3R]

Savage Wolf, on 29 August 2017 - 05:56 AM, said:

...but more importantly, your argument is read by all the lurkers and the devs. Those are the ones you try to convince.
A dislike button will not do that.

Exactly why we must have "dislike button" cause... look in what since open Beta MWO turned into? Nerf Everything Online.
Thanx to who'm? To arguments and "saltbringers". That must be stoped, a radically. No disscus, no dialogs, no pity... to "nerfers".
And "dislike button" will do it at it's best. Since we can't report some thread to be locked on "stupidity" and "nerf exploit" purpose. That's why I voted "YES" for "Dislike Button".

[Savage Wolf]

C4NC3R, on 29 August 2017 - 06:05 AM, said:

Exactly why we must have "dislike button" cause... look in what since open Beta MWO turned into? Nerf Everything Online.
Thanx to who'm? To arguments and "saltbringers". That must be stoped, a radically. No disscus, no dialogs, no pity... to "nerfers".
And "dislike button" will do it at it's best. Since we can't report some thread to be locked on "stupidity" and "nerf exploit" purpose. That's why I voted "YES" for "Dislike Button".

I disagree with that statement. What would you like: A counter argument or that I simply dislike you into obscurity. Do remember that whatever tool you can use to hide the suggestions you do not like can also be used against you.
And if it was up to me, that argument you just made should not be considered. I think it's wrong. But lucky for you i cannot prevent it from being present here in the forums for all to see, including the devs. So be thankful there isn't a dislike button. Be thankful that you cannot be silenced.