Blizzard owns this forum and they can decide not to use that software, so yes, it is up to them.
If you think Blizzard is going to change forum software right after switching over just to add an ignore feature for posters then you’re sadly mistaken. lol
Wait and see. If a company doesn’t give its customers what they want, they can and do often just stop giving them business.
I don’t really pay all that much attention to what you post normally, but I am pretty sure you have told others to do that for this game, i.e. if they don’t like it just leave.
So you get disliked bombed to the point where your post is hidden. That’s so much worse than now, where you can be flag bombed to the point where your post is hidden.
I don’t know about that, I don’t care to get into a back and forth match but it’s been shown time after time that many players can be very unhappy for many years and never walk away.
I fully agree with this. If players don’t enjoy their time here then they should quit and walk away and find something to do with their time that they actually enjoy. This is just a video game, nothing here is important unless you make a living from it. You’re very right though, I do say that pretty often. I don’t believe in subjecting yourself to a hobby that brings so much anger and frustration to someone.
I was suspended for 3 days just for suggesting that and that alone.
What you are asking for is the freedom of speech and the rights of players to express themselves. That is something that these forums no longer allow.
This company is based in California. There is no such thing as free speech here anymore at all. No more downvotes anywhere at all now days.
Odd though how they implemented ignoring people instead… so they do agree with truly silencing people. If you say something they disagree with, then that will do exactly what they did to me last time… BAN you from the forums without naming a reason why and when you ask why, they never respond until you keep asking over and over and over again. then they will eventually answer by saying they do not know why you were punished and are sorry for wrongfully suspending you, but they still will not name the reason why.
This is exactly what happened to me the last time I made a post about how I thought Activsion was ………and then I listed a few examples. Out of all of the posts I had ever made in the last week that that had happened, only those posts were the ones that were removed. No email was given as to why, no notification was given. So yes.
Downvoting will NEVER be brought back. The downvote has disappeared from nearly all social media now days.
If you have an opinion that does not fit the narrative of the platform you are posting on… say good bye to your posting privileges. And that is universal now.
If a post has a massive amount of downvotes, then it will tell posters to not even bother their time reading it. No upvotes, only hearts now too.
They want to encourage a ‘positive environment now’. Isn’t that what FF does on their forums and any negative threads get deleted?
Why do players need an outlet to dislike things?
So they should just get rid of this forum totally?
You can disagree with something and make a counter argument. That is one of the purposes of forums. The whole ‘down-vote’ and needing an ‘outlet’ is not needed on these forums. Those are more akin to tantrums and not something mature adults do.
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This whole forum is used as an outlet for people to dislike things in the game or what blizzard does or does not do. You aren’t being realistic.
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Post hidden again due to false flagging until a staff member reviews it. Think this is number four.
It wasn’t last night but I think when that guy said he got a vacation when he suggested this, people jumped on it.
Look what’s happened to your post. Do you really think implementing a negative feedback loop could be at all constructive? There’s already a dislike, it’s called not hitting the like.
If I post and get likes, I’m encouraged to post more, if I don’t get them, not so much. The system seems fine as is. Outright dislikes would actively discourage posts, which seems wholly counterintuitive for a forum. People would start deleting their unpopular posts, that almost feels like a censorship by majority. Inside of every dislike is a tiny anonymous ef you. What’s not to like?
Could be. I imagine I’d already have been suspended by now. I shouldn’t have to worry about being suspended for legitimately posting…
Not hitting like is not akin to a dislike function. If it were, that would necessitate that I dislike almost everything I read here.
And despite my post being hidden, falsely, numerous times, I am still in support of the idea. I’d rather a post be disliked and for that number of dislikes to be shown than for posts to instead be false flagged and literally hidden.
I don’t see dislikes as a discouragement. Nor do I concede the assumption that players would in the end delete their posts because of their desire for hearts. I do think such a function would allow to see a more accurate representation of reception a post has, however.
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He thinks it will prevent moderators to keep on unflagging things because people are flagging things they don’t like ( not sure that is true or not or if people legimately think there is something wrong).
If his theory is true then it actually will save moderator time.
Blizzard doesn’t like this though. They don’t want us to know how popular an idea is (not that it is hard to figure out), they want us to be using likes as a reward for posting constructively, just as dislikes were supposed to be ‘punishment’ for unconstructive posts. They are unrealistic too.
I’m unsure likes are used to reward constructive posting. 
(I know you know.) That’s an interesting take, as well. That is, Blizzard not wanting posts to show their more truthful reception. Could you imagine the like to dislike ratio some blue posts would receive?
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I really hope something is done soon about the flagging abuse.
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Post hidden for the FIFTH time. Restored for the FIFTH time. 
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Dislike button is far more efficient and useful than having people flag a poster, which on this forum construct, impacts their trust level.
Dislike button was fine.
But, yes, a single person should not have been, or still allowed to, have more than a single vote.
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