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RE: Change Kudos to Likes?
October 30, 2012 at 3:42 pm
(October 30, 2012 at 3:36 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I wish we could give Kudon'ts. I miss the ability to neg rep people. I hate the fact that systems usually allow only like or ignore. I understand that many don't want hurt feeilngs, but why not? Who has the right not to be offended? When someone says something dumb I should have an easy way to express distaste. I wish there was a dislike button on Facebook!
I wish there wasn't a rating system of posts at all but if it's going to be in, keeping negative rating out is a good thing. An unpopular opinion isn't always dumb but with negative ratings, they become indistinguishable from one another.
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RE: Change Kudos to Likes?
October 30, 2012 at 3:56 pm
(October 30, 2012 at 3:39 pm)Tino Wrote: I will work on getting properly calibrated
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Change Kudos to Likes?
October 30, 2012 at 6:00 pm
(October 30, 2012 at 3:36 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I wish we could give Kudon'ts. I miss the ability to neg rep people. I hate the fact that systems usually allow only like or ignore. I understand that many don't want hurt feeilngs, but why not? Who has the right not to be offended? When someone says something dumb I should have an easy way to express distaste. I wish there was a dislike button on Facebook! We were warned of speech tweaking to only allow for positive ideas to be shared with newspeak and the constant redaction of negative words from the english language in the book 1984. From the wiki on newspeak:
Quote:words with negative meanings are removed as redundant, so "bad" becomes "ungood"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
So I can't kudon't a post to let someone know I think ill of thier post, nor can I neg rep them to show that they are a repugnant entity, much like I can't dislike a post on Facebook. I can only sit back an "not like" the hell out of something I find scathingly terrible, and I find that double plus ungood!
I think you might be on to something. You know how people are always asking for a 'dislike' option on FB? Perhaps we could do a kudos and a dislike button for posts... But I don't like the idea of giving negative rep points.
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RE: Change Kudos to Likes?
October 30, 2012 at 6:16 pm
A bad post is usually called out and some make it to the thread of shame. I see no need to have a 'dislike' button as I believe that would get abused and eventually be of little value, assuming of course, that it had any value from the start.
If I dislike a post, I will respond and this response qualifies the 'dislike'.
I would get 'NINTENDO" finger with a 'dislike' button
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RE: Change Kudos to Likes?
October 30, 2012 at 6:29 pm
I was on a forum one time that had a rate up/rate down system and you could set up your profile to only view posts with a positive rating, or only above -5 or something like that. It was great because the dumb or obnoxious got voted out of existence effectively. I eventually switched my profile to view all because I like knowing the worst things people post.
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RE: Change Kudos to Likes?
October 30, 2012 at 6:50 pm
(October 30, 2012 at 6:16 pm)IATIA Wrote: A bad post is usually called out and some make it to the thread of shame. I see no need to have a 'dislike' button as I believe that would get abused and eventually be of little value, assuming of course, that it had any value from the start.
If I dislike a post, I will respond and this response qualifies the 'dislike'.
I would get 'NINTENDO" finger with a 'dislike' button
Valid point, but sometimes I'd rather just let the poster know their post was bad and they should feel bad and move on, not get into an argument over it.
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RE: Change Kudos to Likes?
October 30, 2012 at 7:03 pm
True enough, may perhaps it could be set up on a trial and see if it can work without abuse, but I see thousands of dislikes coming.
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RE: Change Kudos to Likes?
October 30, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Before implementing it, I'd be curious what everyone else thought of the idea. If the overwhelming majority is no, I'd be cool with that. Democracy at work 
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RE: Change Kudos to Likes?
October 30, 2012 at 7:32 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2012 at 7:35 pm by Gilgamesh.)
(October 30, 2012 at 6:29 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I was on a forum one time that had a rate up/rate down system and you could set up your profile to only view posts with a positive rating, or only above -5 or something like that. It was great because the dumb or obnoxious got voted out of existence effectively. I eventually switched my profile to view all because I like knowing the worst things people post.
That's fucking horrible. Discussion boards don't work when parts of the discussion are removed for some parties. This is exactly what I'm talking about when I say negative ratings blurs the line between stupid and unpopular. You'll be ignored just for having an unpopular opinion. You won't even be able to justify your opinion because you won't be heard.
+/- ratings creates gang mentality too. People are likely to -1 a post that is already way below and vice versa.
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RE: Change Kudos to Likes?
October 30, 2012 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2012 at 7:40 pm by IATIA.)
If one wanted a sullen peaceful board, where all are in agreement, then bite the bullet, believe in god and hit some xtian boards. Nice and peaceful ... until some damn atheist shows up.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
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