Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello CCP, could you please consider adding a "dislike" or -1 button to the forums?
I see so many stupid posts every time I read this forum and we only have limited options to voice our disagreement.

If a downvote button was added (and the negative score displayed on the post) it would help generate a sense of community as everyone who read that post and disliked it would know they were not alone in the universe.

If this subtracted from our "likes received" (and allowed it to go negative) it would be an excellent way to "name and shame" players.

Yeah. We need more haters, I'm pretty sure we don't have enough of them.

Also the poor creatures don't have how to express themselves in a forum.

All power to the haters!!!

I can see one potential reason why they've not added one - alliance downvoting blocks.
Besides the old forums never had any up / down vote buttons at all and we managed just fine.

I agree with S'Way and can also think about other ways this could be a real problem.

As it stands now anyone can like any posts they see fit, and there is no way to know if this person actually "liked" your post because it was good/funny or because they are liking every single post they come across in certain threads (especially in Out of pod exsperiense i have noticed this happening a lot). The "idea" behind the likes were good, but it was shown pointless pretty fast.

Now lets imagion there is a "dislike" option.
For people who are looking for a corp i can actually see this becoming very handy. In general all recruitment posts aims to "look good" in order to get recruits, and unless someone has the patience to read trough pages of "bumps" there is no way to see if someone has something bad to say about said corp. But if you could "dislike" the recruitment post...well then it would be easier to see if people felt the post was accurate and if the corp was worth joining.
But now how this could be abused..
Imagion a player who got blown up, felt unfairly treated, got smacked in local, simply dosent like you for some reason and has no knowledge about your corp. Run to the forums and "down rate" said corp. Suddenly a perfectly good corp looks really bad because a bunch of angry players still havent understood that EVE is not a nice place.
Older players would know how to do their own research, but for younger players they would not know where to look and would base a lot on the "dislikes" "likes" a post have.

Same can happen with perfectly good posts anywhere else on the forums. Someone posts good advice in response to a random question, and people who want to..mess with you.. just because they can will "dislike" the post(s) just for "fun", leaving the person who asked the question not knowing weather or not the correct responses were actually correct.

And ofc you have people who make a living out of varius services, like making KB banners and third party traders and similar. There is a lot of competition here so it would be logical to "dislike" the competition just to try and get more costumers them selfes.

The only way i can see that the "likes" "dislike" system actually working the way (im guessing) CCP intended is if you can leave a "public comment" with your like/dislike. As an example "I like this post because it made me laugh" or "I dislike this post because its just a bad idea". But implementing something like this would be pretty hard (since im not a computer person im assuming here) and i doubt it can be done.

So your options are pretty simple.. Instead of a "dislike" option you can either not respond to the person, or respond with valid questions and comments explaining why you dont like it and maybe get a useful and productive discussion out of it.

Actually, replace a few key words here with "Bounty" and you have perfectly described the flaw in THAT system.

I can't wait for the Dislike and Get Dislikes thread.

THIS would actually work.

Like THIS ?

What do you think?