so, other people’s opinions are so painful for you that you would
rather not know.
Downvotes are not better. I remember when we had the system. So many posts that were factually correct downvoted by cliques who you took attention away from, projecting the illusion that the post was wrong or burying it, when it shouldn’t have been. This bolds true for the opposite.
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Yeah - people using Alts to upvote their own threads or their friends threads is annoying and gives a false impression… but it is ultimately harmless. I wish Blizzard would make “likes” account wide.
But downvotes have a negative effect. They can hide something that follows the code of conduct just by brigading something they disagree with.
I don’t see anything wrong with punishing people who false flag. I think it is the only solution.
Maybe if a false flag is over turned, the person who did the false flag cant flag anyone for a month. Not a big punishment - and the mods will have a month break from that false flagger.
And a limit on flags per account - maybe one per week- would make sure people use them more judiciously.
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I was going to say just bring back standard reporting. Actually having to type out what the problem is. If a post gets 3 reports, each one is something completely different, it will paint a different picture than when 3 people just flag something they disagree with as trolling. Sure, a “human” has to look at it, but it’s just an entry level, minimum wage employee rubber stamping to empty their queue and fill their daily quota.
Back when we had a report feature, real trolls got banned, not some guy who had a different opinion.
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Id kill for a reddit system where posts move based on response.
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No, you just read it that way. You clearly have a narrative to push. What I wrote means I want to avoid things that alienate people, both ways. I’m reading your post(s) just fine, see ? If you post anything else I’ll consider it, if it doesn’t fit me I’ll ignore it, or reply, who knows ? Only the choice matters, we owe one another nothing, but amenity maybe.
You’re not a well known troll to me, those ones I /ignored them already because in years lurking here I haven’t agreed to anything they wrote, or I despise them. I’ve never felt the need to harass them or to get revenge. Social engineered things are meant precisely for that, create drama under the guise of sociability. It’s peak perversion. I want to avoid this at any price. Do you enjoy it, good for you, but some others really don’t, and I’d rather join them than oppose you. That, is true sociability. Nobody is entitled anything, so why would I lose time trying to change your rightful mind ? As long as you don’t break some rules and don’t act like a duck 100% times, it’s ok.
There are hundreds posters, 10 less won’t matter much, and I can focus on the others. And the beauty of it ? They can do the same ! It’s a game, we have to cope with people only if we choose to. Life’s too short, and GD far too entertaining to let some pityful human beings confiscate and make ot bleak.
So, yeah, I’m to avoid any power on the forum/posters to anybody, just on their own experience. Dunno where you saw pain in this 
do you brand all those who disagree with your perspectives as “trolls”?
that seems to be a fairly common approach to debate, these days…lol.
are you…common…master dwarf?
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People would just alt hop to mass downvote and bury anything they disagree with. It would be worse imho.
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not only the ‘downvote and bury’ act…
but the immediate “troll” accusation.
it’s pretty lame.
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Downvotes let you bury opinions for being unpopular, which just enforces the idea that everyone who disagrees with the majority needs to be punished for it.
False flags do happen, but not nearly as frequently as people simply disagreeing with each other does.
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But if people can downvote me i’ll feel bad about my terrible takes and ideas
Yes but only if it was one downvote per entire battlenet account. They were able to prove that some people would get on their alts and downvote posts they didn’t like into oblivion.
We had flagging back in the day. It would put the black box over your post and have a yellow tringle next to your post if you got flagged successfully and every time you got flagged like that then you got silenced on the forums for a while.
I don’t think you understand how reports and flags work.
No. Giving users the option to “bury” posts that don’t break any rules turns communities into toxic cesspools. No online community can be trusted to discern worthwhile commentary because the majority will always determine a posts value by whether or not they agree with it.
Upvote/downvote systems are well intentioned but in reality all they do is normalize pettiness. Leaving flagging as trolls only outlet is as good a system as any.
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Especially with sock puppets.
Despite the necro
It’s funny how it’s the usual suspects who claim everything is abused
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Enforcing the social contract in the forums would do better than down votes imo.
I miss down-votes, they should have just removed the bury functionality tied with being mass down-voted. I’m convinced that Blizzard got rid of them because the white knights would get buried every time they came to Blizzard’s defense when the community was angry about something.
Still to this day it baffles me that Blizzard claimed we were “abusing” the dislike button, by disliking posts that we… disliked? 
Downvotes are better in every way. It was much nicer for people to hit a button as a disagreement. Now it’s even more trolling and flagging that is getting out of hand.
I think downvotes are fine if only the poster can see them. Otherwise it’s just another group-exploitable report button.