Kudos Update

[Violet]

Well, I'm glad you have yourself convinced. I get that it CAN be abused but it doesn't follow that it WILL be abused. By your logic we shouldn't have a rate-down ability regarding reputation or even an ability to post at all.

That is different, because it isn't a 'fluff post' The reason we have the kudos system is foremost to cut down on fluff posting, as far as I'm aware at least

1. Last_Ray has abused the mechanism for posting
2. posting can be abused
3. Nobody should be allowed to post on these forums

I say if there is a good reason to have a way of giving a quick thumbs up there should be a quick thumbs down. It is just as confusing to see random thumb ups with no explaination.

If there was a post with a lot of thumbs in either direction it will only get more attention; think train wrecks and car accidents and the fact of morbid curiosity.

By the way, I am not in love with the idea or even frustrated that it hasn't been implemented, it was merely a suggestion and now I am having fun defending it!

Rhizo

My only serious complaint to a thumbs down system is the fluff it would generate because of people asking why a person downrated their post. The other problems could possibly be solved with a lot of hard work by the forum programmers. An 'i agree' is a very simple statement... there are very few things a person could be agreeing with, and there is very little that can be questioned of an 'i agree'. However, an i disagree could be disagreeing with any or all of a post, and the questions for it can perhaps be innumerable.

A lot of fluff would be generated simply by the statement of 'I disagree', and as the kudos system is there to get rid of fluff: it seems counterproductive to add in an 'i disagree' system