By removing the downvote and leaving the upvote, blizzard has made the flag into the new downvote.
Ignoring isn’t acceptable when there will always be people that upvote and/or comment positively on even the most stupid and idiotic ideas. Leaving a disapproving comment isn’t acceptable when you know the point of many trolls is to get attention and even disagreement bumps a post keeping it visible gaining more attention.
We need a mechanism to silently disagree without bumping the post allowing people to bury a post undeserving of a reply. Since we can’t downvote, we flag.
Blizzard should never have removed the dislike button, you can’t take away the dislike but keep the like button, of course people are going to just use the report button as a pseudo dislike.
Give the dislike button back (but take away the bury effect) and 90% of the false flagging will go away.
Exactly. But I have never heard of anyone getting sanctioned for ‘false flagging’ because almost always there is something wrong with the post flagged. OP is a prime example in fact. Just because they think that post is okay, doesn’t mean others will see it in the same way.
Flagging just brings more attention to your post anyway. I always look to see what was so bad. It completely defeats whatever purpose they tried to do with the system.
Where did I say it was my business? I merely gave a heads up that blues have said it can happen. To be helpful. Because forum vacations aren’t fun. And people can lose trust levels when it happens.
God forbid we help people know how stuff works, hmm?
I’m also taking about the overabundance of hostility around here. It just seems worse to me.
Personally i think that it was a load of crap and they just got tired of their white knights getting buried for defending Blizzard on whatever hot button topic was happening on any given week. A blue poster even said that we were “abusing” the dislike button, how the hell do you abuse a dislike feature? Whether you like something or dislike it is purely subjective and can’t be “abused” lol
There were people harassing others and following them around into every thread to mass downvote posts. Not unlike how some use the flag now. Though not as bad.
I don’t even know what this means or what you’re even talking about. Are you okay? Did someone piddle in your Cheerios this morning? Your ranting at me makes no sense.
And again, I never said it was. You can stop being angry about someone giving a friendly heads up now, mkay? Thanks.
I don’t know what their motivation was, but none of it is working out like they probably thought it would.
