For the posts we dont agree
Will reveal the true community feedback on a given idea/comment/post.
Reporting a post is different than negging.
Give us dissie button please.
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We had one, it hurt too many feelings so it was removed. Now everyone just flags posts.
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I think there used to be one but i think it flagged posts.
I like reddit updoot and downdoot system.
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That’s not why it was removed and you know it, quit gaslighting. It’s because posts when they were downvoted past certain thresholds went hidden. People were using it as a silence function on opinions or views they didn’t like hearing, namely anybody who was in favor of pathfinder.
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They can make it private that only the poster can see. This will help posters who want to improve the quality of their of their posts without hurting their feelings.
Correct me if I’m wrong, genuinely asking, but doesn’t flagging do this now? Like what was the difference?
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…sure. 
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Im new to the forums, I also thought it was removed due to hurt feelings.
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Add battletags and show who flags posts.
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This would stop all false flagging, but this would hurt more feelings than downvotes because people couldn’t be anonymous with their false flagging anymore. It would also stop coordinated reporting where the same group of posters report certain people.
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Sure, if we call it a Dislike option. Not a downvote or I don’t agree, just a Dislike. Because often I will see posts that I don’t like - either the opinion or the style or the tone - it would be good to just Dislike it, and leave.
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It does, except the difference was there was no penalty for disliking a post. Deliberately misflagging a post if it actually gets looked into will end up in action on your account instead if you’re trying to use it malevolently.
Disliking did it, but it was vague and people just generally noticed posts were never hidden with a score above -5 or -10 or something. Then I believe -25 was the cutoff for the post automatically being deleted from the thread outright. So there was an easy way for people to either quite literally not know it did that, or for people to know it did that, do it anyway and say “Oh well I was just downvoting the post because I disliked it.” How can you fairly pass judgment on someone for something that is quite literally ignorance? You really can’t.
Which is the other thing, it’s vague what “Disliking” a post means. Did you dislike what they said or how they said it? The fact it can action suggests it’s meant to be used on posts that you dislike for violating the code of conduct, not “I dislike this post because it says Titanforging is making them play the game too much and a bad thing, but I like titanforging so downvoted.”
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Likes and dislikes on a forum of such a small amount where people must rage at every turn is not anything to be gauged or taken seriously.
Flagging isn’t supposed to be used as a downvote. Flagging is reporting behavior against CoC.
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It was. It also got abused. There was a group that would run around and downvote pretty much every opening post they’d see in just about every thread they entered.
It became a game to them. I remember getting mass downvoted because I said I remembered something that someone else had reminisced about ingame. It was not an important comment or topic, we were just talking.
Things got weird but if everyone had just ignored those that were mass downvoting, they’d eventually have wandered off like neglected pets.
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This too is why it’s gone. At least that’s what I think too.
Hurt fees and this. Well said.
I appreciate you clearing that up!
I would most definitely be in favor of a downvote option, if you’re able to up vote you should be able to voice your opinion the opposite way as well.
It shouldn’t be able to hide a post though.
I know they are not the same, but I appreciate the reply!
My question was more so in regards to nastier types who use it as a downvote just to get something hidden or actioned in some way.
There was even a discord used by one group who coordinated mass reports on specific posters in hopes to get them banned from the forum.
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I agree, a downvote would be nice because we need a better way of disagreeing. However I would propose drastic changes to the system as a whole if they go for that. Make people have to give a reason and a post in order to like another post instead of silently liking posts. Especially when it gets into petty arguments and you see like three people arguing, one goes quiet but just ghosts the thread liking every post disagreeing with the person they’re arguing with while not contributing anything to the conversation.
I’ll be honest, these forums back when people started weaponizing dislike buttons was actually more of a cesspool than 4chan’s /pol/ board.
Actually, here for people I got somewhat of a tale. Prior to Classic and after the Nostalrius shutdown we had a huge stickied thread that got to like 2k pages. Although after a point it was almost entirely kept alive by self posting from my priest and a handful of other people contributing to the discussion. Ziryus the nelf druid for example, a dwarf paladin I can’t remember the name of, but they were people I disagreed with about retail but we maintained a civil discussion generally, a nelf rogue, and a pandaren shaman I believe also were involved.
I won’t name the bad actor here, but there was a point where people who agreed with him started ridiculing him because he openly in the thread bragged about how he made an extension via Google Chrome SPECIFICALLY to downvote posts made by certain players whenever they were able to if the thread was open. Said players? Everybody who held a different opinion from him. So you’d even see posts where Ziryus would defend the guy from me berating them, then the pandaren would downvote the post defending him.