Welcome to the new forums!

[GenjiPlzSwap-1711]

I’m not feeling literally any of the changes. Just my opinion

[Kris-13927]

Excited about the new forums

[Prometheus-13698]

The OW team is dedicated to listening to our community and taking your feedback to heart. We’ll do our best to try to follow as much of your feedback here as possible.

I’ll believe that when I see an orange post in the Mercy megathread addressing her fans’ issues.

And, why remove the dislike button? Can no one have a dissenting opinion anymore?

[Pharaoh-11100]

Was I the only one playing where’s waldo with jeff kaplan’s face on that picture?

[AkuDal-2824]

congrats on making the forum experience smoother ! It’s gonna take me some time to get used to it, just like any changes to Youtube or Facebook have me confused for ages.

[GiacoBers-2485]

I love the new forum and I love the team working behind this amazing game!

[Ohaiguy-1980]

Nifty! This’l take some getting used to. But, having more functionality is nice

[mypants-11501]

you can’t downvote? hmmm, okay.

[Nicolas-23149]

It’s nice feature you can pin the thread you want, instead seen only this pinned by mods. It’s a nice feature.

But somehow it doesn’t work all the time. I refreshed the second tab with forums by accident (on which I still didn’t pin the thread) and after that, the thread was suddenly unpinned.

And again: I made a post in my pinned thread. After sent, the thread was unpinned.

[LunasaysMeow-11459]

How do I quote posts? D:

[linkdude240-1984]

Highlight the text you want to quote and click “Reply”

OR

The quote bubble at the top-left of the Comment Editor

[LunasaysMeow-11459]

Highlight the text you want to quote and click “Reply”

OR

The quote bubble at the top-left of the Comment Editor

Thank you.

[linkdude240-1984]

Not a problem, and if you want to know more about some of the newer features in this forum, check out this post I made:

@linkdude240-1984

So for those new to Markdown I just wanted to give a quick list of things you can do.

Others feel free to add to this list.

[pkthebird-1549]

@mk8000-1282

There’s a reason none of the major social media websites (twitter, facebook, Instagram) use downvotes/dislikes. Because they don’t foster discussion, only toxicity. That’s what the culture of the forums (and largely the internet as a whole) has become in recent times. Sticking your head in only to tell someone “I don’t like that”.

If you don’t like something, don’t interact with it. If you disagree with something, say that and explain why. Downvoting only promotes a bullying mob mentality. If you said something that went against the grain, you were almost literally silenced by the hordes of downvotes by having you post be concealed.

Without downvotes, we can make nerf genji threads, nerf moira threads, threads regarding hero backgrounds (race, religion, sexuality), shipping threads, and threads constructively critiquing the game without being shut down by people who probably didn’t read the first post. Every idea is heard equally. If an idea isn’t good, it won’t get m/any likes. That’s a clear enough gauge of things.

I say all this to say I really enjoy the new forums. You don’t have to be afraid of saying something that the masses don’t agree with anymore.

Isn’t that hypocritical, irrational, and one sided? You want praise to be shown in upvotes while people who disagree/downvote are hidden. That’s an echo chamber and thought policing. Yet you tout “Equality” You hate people being silenced but that’s exactly that new forums are discreetly designed to do.

Imagine a review site for restaurants that only permitted upvoting with no downvoting. It would give distorted view how many people actually like it compared to those who don’t. Yes you can spend hours reading all the comments but the point of a legitimate review metric is to gauge both negative/positive feedback.

I wanted to post this in the original thread and it was locked instantly. Because people couldn’t downvote and people started to refute it. Where did the other posts go?

Topic (You can’t even link back to Blizzard on forums, rofl…so bad)
no-downvotes-is-a-huge-improvement

"Something has gone wrong. Perhaps this topic was closed or deleted while you were looking at it? "

Thought Police much?

[Genji-21525]

Man, this looks so much better to be honest.

[LucioMain-1637]

Squad pic.

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[SteamPunk-1893]

Overly cluttered and ugly. No downvotes. No links without “trust”, so no meaningful bug reports from new users. No explanation of what “trust” is. No explanation on how to earn “trust”. No way to measure “trust” gained.

[Linsivi (Callie)]

Hi, this is just here as a bug report because I’m not sure where else to send it.

Thanks for the report! We will address this.

[Lightca-1158]

New forums seem fine, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to put people on ignore now.

Are we still able to, or are we going to be forced for eternity to have to read every post by every reoccurring troll or idiot?

[IIstickersII-1791]

Thanks Jeff & team, looks good.