Dislike button

[Ravendarat]

Can we have a dislike button added for post? We have a heart, and check mark, an informative one but no dislike. And before anyone says it would create a negative environment In would argue that it might actually clean it up some. Right now if you read something you dont agree with your only recourse for response is to write a post about it, and then that turns into more back and forth responses and often they seem to break down into stupid BS. If we just had a thumbs down button or whatever than maybe poeple would be more inclined to just click on that and move on than have to post "naw bro thats dumb" or whatever the kids are saying now a days lol.

[Levent]

Only if you did click the sticky thread. Funny reaction is the de-facto dislike button.

 

[LogicalDrm]

First,

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Dislike/disagree button
If you disagree with a post, you should quote it and explain why you feel the post is incorrect, so that people can see both sides of the argument, and make their own decision, rather than simply seeing that someone doesn't think the post is correct without any context.

https://linustechtips.com/topic/720446-declined-suggestions-read-before-posting/

 

I fail to see how having no discussion and just pressing "no-like" is any better than explaining why you disagree. To me pressing dislike is the BS response.

[TylerD321]

1 minute ago, Levent said:

Only if you did click the sticky thread. Funny reaction is the de-facto dislike button.

 

Oh man, I have been marking things funny that I thought were funny. People probably think I am a jerk.

[Ravendarat]

9 minutes ago, Levent said:

Only if you did click the sticky thread. Funny reaction is the de-facto dislike button.

 

I totally missed this, thank you for pointing it out. Totally my fault. Sad part is now that I have clicked that I KNOW I have read that in the past and just forgot all about it.

[Ravendarat]

1 minute ago, LogicalDrm said:

First,

https://linustechtips.com/topic/720446-declined-suggestions-read-before-posting/

 

I fail to see how having no discussion and just pressing "no-like" is any better than explaining why you disagree. To me pressing dislike is the BS response.

You clearly spend a lot of time on here as you are a mod. There are a lot of posts that shouldn't need to have a full typed out response to explain why someone disagrees with it, in the same way there are a lot of posts that don't need an explanation as to why they agree, hence the check the agree and like button. All I was saying is that it would have been nice to have a quick reaction button to the inverse of the "agree" or "like". If someone says they thing the blue water bottle is the best looking and I disagree it seems silly to actually type out a response that says "not a fan" when the same thing could be conveyed through a simple click of a "frown face" or whatever, thats all. Either way as was pointed out above thats what the funny face is for, so Ill just use that.

[LogicalDrm]

3 minutes ago, Ravendarat said:

You clearly spend a lot of time on here as you are a mod. There are a lot of posts that shouldn't need to have a full typed out response to explain why someone disagrees with it, in the same way there are a lot of posts that don't need an explanation as to why they agree, hence the check the agree and like button. All I was saying is that it would have been nice to have a quick reaction button to the inverse of the "agree" or "like". If someone says they thing the blue water bottle is the best looking and I disagree it seems silly to actually type out a response that says "not a fan" when the same thing could be conveyed through a simple click of a "frown face" or whatever, thats all. Either way as was pointed out above thats what the funny face is for, so Ill just use that.

Well, the thing is that any negative button would be used to other things than just showing different thoughts on something that isn't worth arguing about (like preferences in colors, looks, taste of music etc.). For those only would it work. But from just how "funny" is currently used, it would be used as tool of cyber-bullying and would be hard to tack and interfere with. Besides the mentioned case where explaining why someone is wrong or needs to be corrected is better than just showing reactions to their way.