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Originally Posted by Sarge
One question: What's the purpose/benefit?
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Our users should answer this question for themselves wether they see a benefit or not. If they see one, they will most likely use it.
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Originally Posted by Sarge
I will not click any of these buttons.
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Then don't, see above. Nobody forces you to do so.
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Originally Posted by Sarge
If I agree or disagree with someone/something, I can still mention it in a post.
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True.
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Originally Posted by Sarge
I suspect some people might be tempted to fish for "likes" or "punish" members for not sharing their opinion by purposely "disliking" posts.
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Your assumption may be correct - but it shows how bad you think about some of our users. On the other hand, this is already happening since we opened this forum a decade ago.
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Originally Posted by Sarge
I'm not pleased to see that this forum is going to be like Facebook.
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It certainly is not. We are not forcing you to do anything, unlike Facebook forcing you to use a specific @facebook.com email address as your username, for example. The only similiarity is the "Like" button, a feature that is very popular on the web. I would have even used the one from Facebook if it wouldn't collect data so aggressively.
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Originally Posted by Sarge
As long as the names of those who clicked "dislike" aren't shown, it's pretty easy to "dislike" any comment a particular person posted ("I don't like him/her, let's dislike all his/her posts) or click the button just "for fun".
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Sad thing is, you have a pretty bad opinion about the people here. I’ll remove the anonymization later on to stop that potential kind of abuse.
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Originally Posted by Sarge
That whole like/dislike thing is not reliable
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It is pretty straight forward. You click like/dislike and the system records your vote and shows it every thread view. The only thing that may render it unreliable is that you are allowed to change your vote. If that turns out to be unpleasant, we'll turn that off. So what?
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Originally Posted by Sarge
not representative
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True. It was never intended to be.
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Originally Posted by Sarge
highly manipulable
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Bollocks. I’ll challenge you to go try and manipulate it.
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Originally Posted by Sarge
and rather childish, in my opinion.
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Thank you very much.
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Originally Posted by Sarge
It will not "fix" anything.
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It is not and was never meant to "fix" anything. It is a coincidence that I suddenly had some spare time I could use to work on my todo list. Fyi, this was on my todo list since I made the first demos for a new layout over a year ago. Applying fixes mentioned in the other thread may take a little longer than those 5 days that thread is running, we have to commit to a decision first.
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Originally Posted by Sarge
... and probably clicked the "dislike" button as well.  See, that's another problem with the missing names. I will just assume that it was you who disliked my post.  |
According to
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Assumption is the mother of ~~~~-ups.
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Originally Posted by chairboys
The quote above is from Evil Nickname. Read it. Now, tell me what there is not to like about that sentence as it stands. I can't see anything, yet it received a negative vote.
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You have to see it in context with Dave's reply immediately before. It is meant to be a "joke". Not all people like this kind of humor, hence the dislike. And if you consider his next post in this thread, one could get the impression that this was a trolling attempt. Or not.
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Originally Posted by AndrewG
Was the dislike function added just for the sake of Wario's posts?
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That was one of the reasons.
