All the other Blizzard forums still have the old forum where dislike button exists.
Are peoples feelings really so delicate here, they had to get removed?
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Anything to make these forums SOMEWHAT less toxic.
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What value does the word toxic even hold anymore?
Any sort of criticism or even the tiniest hint of negativity is flagged as toxic by the community here lol.
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Iād rather have people articulate an opinion I disagree with than mass downvoting a post.
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True. But I mean I can kinda see why they removed that.
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your not going to read the disagreement anyways.
noone does but people see the net reaction
Yes, my fragile heart cannot handle a dislike from a stranger I have never met. I must ask though. Instead of pressing a button and moving on are you so upset over something because now you have to address why you dislike something?
Itās almost like this a forum for discussion and you donāt seem to really want that. People with unpopular opinions can be downvoted to hell to where their post isnāt able to be seen unless you click it. Unpopular opinions shouldnāt be hidden from sight requiring you to click āShow Postā to see it.
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I agree with ant, it is more so that you have to actually discuss with the person you disagree with or whatever. The dislike button was just lazy and contributed nothing. It has nothing to do with feelings unless the developers were salty when they were mass down-voted, lul.
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Well back on the old forum I gave an opinion if the thread or post seemed genuine.
I just liked using the dislike button for any thread or post that didnāt really need a reply to justify a dislike, like troll posts and stuff.
Iirc you couldnāt vote dev posts on old forum.
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Trolls fed off of dislikes just as much as replies. Even you disliking it shows that they are getting to someone.
you can writeā¦ āi disagreeā¦ā and explain your reasoningāsā¦ or āi donāt like thatā¦ā
Flag option is the new downvote button. So itās technically not gone.
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Ha! As if downvotes would reduce that.
Onyl thing thatāll change that is better moderation.
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We kind of did it to ourselves.
We as a community apparently arenāt mature enough to be able to handle having a dislike button. Which is very telling.
I donāt really see how maturity comes into context with a dislike button.
You click dislike when you donāt like or disagree with the post.
Although I do remember every ānerf Mercyā thread was mass disliked and hidden by the Mercy mains every time one got made. Even if it had a good argument or suggestion inside.
Indeedā¦ Why I barely even use likesā¦ Forums are for discussions, even the āupvotesā etc take away from the discussion.
There are threads being made with pretty much one goal, like fishing. Just find a popular opinion > make a thread praising/following said opinion > rake in the likes.
If I feel like thereās nothing really to add or I canāt be bothered getting into something but agree with a post, thatās when I like.
Because while it helped get rid of ābad threadsā it also allowed people to mass-downvote threads simply because it was posted by someone everyone in the community generally didnāt like - whether their opinions were valid or not. It also promoted lots of āsheepā or ābandwagonā behavior. If a few trolls disliked something, no matter what that thread was about, chances were that it got mass-downvoted.
People doing those ādrive-by downvotesā also didnāt help much. I will say, after the downvotes were removed I read a LOT more now than I did before instead of just coming in and dismissing it due to the mass amount of dislikes. Which I guess is pretty good.
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Nah it creates echo chambers and mob mentality. Iāve seen countless posts by reasonable authors who get downvoted to oblivion because the topic was unpopular.
For exampleā¦when people used to say scatter shot was op, or when people said that Sym needed changes. Those things later became removed or changed anyway, but the authors were downvoted to infinity. Itās not ok .
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Itās not that the people who got disliked were delicate, itās that people dislike everything because theyāre delicate. Iāve seen lots of comments who are just giving straight up facts, including my own get multiple dislikes because people didnāt like that fact.
I even wrote a lengthy post that took, even me a fast reader, at least 30-40s to read, and it had 2 dislikes when I refreshed the page 10s after making the thread.
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Removing dislike made sense on paper. Remove disgruntled players by forcing everyone to form discussions around what they say, right or wrong.
However it kinda backfired and sparked multiple argument threads where it devolves into an utter mess.
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