Nah.
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Didn’t dislikes, on the ol’ forums, actually hide (or remove?) replies?
Also, can you link me to where Blizzard stated that? Sounds interesting.
Just because you never posted there, doesn’t mean it’s false.
It was greyed out, not hidden, and could be read.
Can’t. It was on the old forums. But I’m sure you’ll decide that it’s false, too, since we can’t link it.
And just because you claim something, doesn’t make it true.
As an aside, I am suggesting a system wherein dislikes are only shown, not one in which dislikes hide replies. You know, like the like system we have already.
Discourse is a shoddy badly coded 3rd party social media forums software incorporated by Blizzard to replace some of the CS staff they riffed a while back. Their ability to modify the software is limited because it’s 3rd party. It’s tier three quality by the way and hardly anyone uses it. As such we will never have another ignore button nor we we ever see the like/dislike buttons return. People will continue to use flag as a dislike button and complain about the lack of an ignore button.
I would contend that downvote was healthier in that people were not able to use it as a flag to have other players silenced. No matter how buried a post got from downvotes you could unbury it with a click. Additionally the old system that required people do do a report on TOS breaking posts was better because those were vetted by human beings and you could not flag brigade with an army of your alts. The old system was superior in every way but it required the use of a larger staff to maintain it.
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Yet there are a crap ton of people who are telling you how it worked and why. You just want to stick your fingers in your ears and ignore that.
If you don’t know the history, don’t comment. It’s insulting to the rest of us.
And will still breed a lack of conversation as people look at it, see downvotes and then close the thread, letting ideas and concerns drop to the bottom.
We’ve discussed this. Over and over. You have no valid argument and just talk in circles.
Downvotes are gone and will stay gone. Period.
Currently, players are using the flag feature to silence others. This very topic has been hidden and restored three times now.
I believe a dislike feature may deter this destructive behavior that literally ends discussion, as you worry about so.
Moreover, I am suggesting something different than what was. You can’t say with certainty that it would limit or discourage conversation, at all. And forgive me but I don’t see dislikes (as I suggest them) as being the prevention of discussion as you claim it would be.
Lastly, considering this topic is so obviously disliked, why is it breeding so much discussion? You seem to say it shouldn’t.
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The needing of downvotes? Almost certainly from a feeling of powerlessness. Downvotes are the underclasses illusion of power.
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I was gonna say we’re all equal here, but you’re playing a shaman so underclass theme fits. Poor shaman.
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But I’m not the OP…?
Also, I left warlock to play Shaman because I like the challenge (and the fight for buffs). But there’s also something really weak about playing the easy class, e.g. DHs.
I agree fotm is silly.
But I was wondering where your stem vs liberal arts thing came from.
Seemed out of left field as a response to forum downvoting and flag abuse.
Ah yes.
The home of the antivaxxer.
I see.
I skipped a step in my response, but it basically amounts to this. In a world that tells everyone to go into some STEM-like field that’s going to push them to get down hard skills - and away from soft skills like critical thinking, philosophy, and literature, the end result will be arguments like this:
Here’s the problem. Prima fascia, upvoting and down voting are the same thing. In terms of practical measurement, they’re a metric unit in one direction. So therefore they must be the same right?
But outside the vacuum of theory, they aren’t the same thing. Because the replacement of downvoting is “not posting”. For reasons of brevity, I won’t get into that, but “not posting” leads to a less toxic, more harmonious forum, which should be the goal given the conditions on the forums.
If you’re a hard analytical person, downvoting is no different from upvoting. But in the soft world of operations, you’ve got to know how to make the trains run on time.
Make American Think Hard - M.A.T.H.
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Go emotional reason, downvotes are negative, heart likes are positive.
Positive affirmation promotes better behavior.
Now I’m missing something.
That’s quite an interesting take.
What can I say? I make no small arguments.
I mean, they could even go the route of it they didn’t want to add downvote, just add an angry emoji like facebook 
That’s where you’re wrong. If a post got too many down votes it was outright hidden.
And Rhielle expected me to take her word for things… Bah! (Much love Rhielle! 
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