I'm in total agreement with Blizz on this.
Do, it like you do in every other forum and report the trolls.
Obviously this is over people abusing systems. It's always like that. If they can abuse, they will.
I'm in total agreement with Blizz on this.
Do, it like you do in every other forum and report the trolls.
Obviously this is over people abusing systems. It's always like that. If they can abuse, they will.
now no meanies can huwt my feewings
You're getting exactly what you deserve.
Fits into blizzard agenda that things are liked their way
Anemo: traveler, Sucrose
Pyro: Yanfei, Amber, diluc, xiangling, thoma, Xinyan, Bennett
Geo: Noelle, Ningguang, Yun Jin, Gorou
Hydro: Barbara, Zingqiu, Ayato
Cyro: Shenhe, Kaeya, Chongyun, Diona, Ayaka, Rosaria
Electro: Fischl, Lisa, Miko, Kujou, Raiden, Razor
i think they should keep downvoting, but only allow it to downvote until they have no upvotes.
that way, you could tell the majority's dislike over the minority's likes.
I think it's a good change. I kind of wish this forum had likes. Is that weird? Sometimes something will make me lol or be really well written, but a post response isn't really necessary.
It's a good change, but upvotes should be scrapped as well. The voting system is just cancerous. Too many people are under the impression that up/downvotes are synonymous with arguments. Sometimes, the majority is wrong.
What's the point of still having the upvote botton without the downvote.
This, exactly.
In almost all cases, I saw downvotes based on disagreement, not an objectively low-quality post.
I personally love the notion of a community curating content to meet higher standards, but all too often that same community will devolve and instead use it to straight out silence honest disagreements. It's sad.
But forums are places for discussion, not popularity contests, and that was what the official forums were devolving into.
Glad they removed the downvote button, but I agree with others that the upvote button also needs to go. Pushing a button does not create discussion whether it points up or down, it only stifles it.
When we looked at the relics of the precursors, we saw the height civilization can attain.
When we looked at their ruins, we marked the danger of that height.
- Keeper Annals
While browsing the forums, the posts I normally viewed often down voted trolls and obvious bait posts. But I have also seen my share of "they disagree, down vote them to hell!" (This is most evident in the class forums where nerfs/buffs are asked for often.)
Of my personal experience with using it we had removed a guild member, for making sexist remarks and unwanted advances towards a female member in our guild, after being told to stop multiple times.
Within an hour, he began harassing our guild recruitment thread to incite drama and made false accusations about the guild. While a report would have likely taken a while to process and judge the posts being worthy of removal, instead the community defended our guild and down voted his posts. He eventually realized his poor behavior and removed his posts.
To add, this individual used their friends to try and Hide our recruitment posts with down votes. But the community kept us well beyond that possibility.
But for every positive experience of giving the community a tool to moderate itself, just as many times it will be used for abuse.
If what they say is true and that they have a larger and more on-the-ball moderation work force, then I welcome the change.
Last edited by Sixnalia; 2017-07-12 at 03:31 AM.
When we looked at the relics of the precursors, we saw the height civilization can attain.
When we looked at their ruins, we marked the danger of that height.
- Keeper Annals
It was fun while it lasted. You can't have the light without the dark, so they should get rid of Up vote, too.
The forums were a better place before they added it, so too shall it be again.
Down voting features on public forums are literally cancer. I could write a book on every reason why, much of which was pointed out in this thread, but the opposition seems to be immature enough to think it's only because people are afraid of their feelingz getting hurt.