Please remove the Disagree Button

[CyberShy]

I found it interesting that thumbs up is Like and thumbs down is disagree. Now I see dislike made people sad. I understand.

Please like if you disagree.

 

[gigawatt1010]

LOL... this is like the early days of Facebook and the thumbs up button. Someone posts that their Grandma past away and people hit the "thumbs up" button.

 

[CyberShy]

Im sorry to hear about your grandma.

 

[wk057]

Overall, I've found that the post ratings system is actually half decent. If your post is useful, even if trolls hit disagree, it's still going to have a positive ratio. If you consistently contribute useful posts to the forum, your post stats will reflect this in your forum profile.

The problem I personally have is that people can hide these stats from other members, making it harder to filter the trolls from people actually contributing. When a troll hides their profile (and thus ratings stats) all people have to go on is their post count, which is a terrible metric for how useful their contributions have been overall.

Made a thread about this here: Transparency on Member Stats

 

[Exiteer]

As the forum is being upgraded I think the disagree button only leads to a lot of rumour and the time is right to remove it. Somebody who disagrees with a post can quote it and explain the reason of disagreeing. It would be a big step forward, trust me.

 

[MXLRplus]

As the forum is being upgraded I think the disagree button only leads to a lot of rumour and the time is right to remove it. Somebody who disagrees with a post can quote it and explain the reason of disagreeing. It would be a big step forward, trust me.

The disagree button has always been problematic.
After awhile, it just becomes a quirk of the board.
Seat of the pants observation is that very few disagrees are of a technical nature:
"The Tesla MX lug torque is 60 lbft" should generate a Disagree and a quoted correction.

They are normally fashion related, that is, herd acceptance.
"Does this dress make me look fat?"
"Willy Wonka would make a terrible Secretary of State."
"My Tesla broke down."
etc.

You will note that nobody who disagreed with you dared post a counterpoint.

 

[MountainPass]

Sensitive much @JulienW ? I've seen a lot of childish things on the forum here but this may take the cake.

Literally laughing out loud at my desk right now, thanks @destructure00

 

[Exiteer]

The disagree button has always been problematic.
After awhile, it just becomes a quirk of the board.
Seat of the pants observation is that very few disagrees are of a technical nature:
"The Tesla MX lug torque is 60 lbft" should generate a Disagree and a quoted correction.

They are normally fashion related, that is, herd acceptance.
"Does this dress make me look fat?"
"Willy Wonka would make a terrible Secretary of State."
"My Tesla broke down."
etc.

You will note that nobody who disagreed with you dared post a counterpoint.

Yes. I would almost call them losers and exactly this is the reason why a disagree button has no value added whatsoever. Do we need more proof?

 

[Kevy Baby]

It looks like there **MAY** be a new Upvote/Downvote feature coming through. Either that, or it is part of the generic SW and they missed an area where they meant to shut it off (it doesn't aways show).

 

[qdeathstar]

Sensitive much @JulienW ? I've seen a lot of childish things on the forum here but this may take the cake.

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LOL

 

[CyberGus]

Sensitive much @JulienW ? I've seen a lot of childish things on the forum here but this may take the cake.

This thread is from almost a year ago. I believe JW was put in forum timeout for while, and has since adhered to community standards.