Front page comment likes and dislikes that counteract each other

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I was recently reading a news article on the front page where someone's comment got 8 likes. I thought I'm sure there would have been a lot more dislikes than 8 likes.  So I thought wouldn't it be neat if you could also dislike a post.

 

Lets say I were to say something in a comment and get 7 likes. But I also got 8 dislikes. That would then put my comment at a -1 likes :D

 

I think it would be fun! But only on the front page, as I don't think they are added to your overall likes count anyway.

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I was recently reading a news article on the front page where someone's comment got 8 likes. I thought I'm sure there would have been a lot more dislikes than 8 likes.  So I thought wouldn't it be neat if you could also dislike a post.

 

Lets say I were to say something in a comment and get 7 likes. But I also got 8 dislikes. That would then put me at a -1 likes :D

 

I think it would be fun! But only on the front page, as I don't think they are added to your overall likes count anyway.

It would ultimately turn the comments into Reddit style, which I prefer. If the default sort would drop (or hide) heavily downvoted comments it would enable some wider community moderation and, ideally, encourage good comments.

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I was recently reading a news article on the front page where someone's comment got 8 likes. I thought I'm sure there would have been a lot more dislikes than 8 likes. So I thought wouldn't it be neat if you could also dislike a post.

People would abuse dislikes. The comment system is already abused. Wouldn't be accurate and people would dislike of a positive comment is made towards something they don't like. Like the big 3...Apple, MS, or Google.

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I don't like that system.

 

It's the same system that arstechnica uses and it's not always about quality of posts but popular opinion. I all too often see posts being hidden due to high dislikes and the post itself was of merit, just unpopular.

 

Also, at a psychological level, people don't like being disliked. It's much easier to deal with getting no likes than it is to get dislikes. It's the primary reason I hardly ever post on ars, and I would imagine many people feel the same way. I don't really get disliked much, but when I do, it bothers me. And you can't even ask why you were down-voted because that gets down-voted.

 

Overall, I don't like it. Not one bit.

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I think the problem is people care to much what other people think of them on the interwebs. The way I see it i'm ether getting likes or dislikes ether, way i'm getting something, in fact if what I said upset them so much they went out of their way to click dislike! Amazing!

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I don't like that system.

 

It's the same system that arstechnica uses and it's not always about quality of posts but popular opinion. I all too often see posts being hidden due to high dislikes and the post itself was of merit, just unpopular.

 

Also, at a psychological level, people don't like being disliked. It's much easier to deal with getting no likes than it is to get dislikes. It's the primary reason I hardly ever post on ars, and I would imagine many people feel the same way. I don't really get disliked much, but when I do, it bothers me. And you can't even ask why you were down-voted because that gets down-voted.

 

Overall, I don't like it. Not one bit.

I would like to down-vote/dislike your post. Nothing personal, I just don't feel the same way as you, about this particular subject.

 

The fact that I don't have that option, bugs me.

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I would like to down-vote/dislike your post. Nothing personal, I just don't feel the same way as you, about this particular subject.

 

The fact that I don't have that option, bugs me.

 

Sure, if you don't like something you just don't click like, but just the likes are shown. So it still feels very one sided.

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I would like to down-vote/dislike your post. Nothing personal, I just don't feel the same way as you, about this particular subject.

 

The fact that I don't have that option, bugs me.

 

That is you, many will abuse it out of spite.  Only way this would work is if it was made public who liked/disliked what on the front page.  Currently, it is not so and you are only shown in the forums.

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That is you, many will abuse it out of spite.  Only way this would work is if it was made public who liked/disliked what on the front page.  Currently, it is not so and you are only shown in the forums.

 

I'm game for public likes / dislikes. Though for some reason when ever I make my polls public people get annoyed. :laugh:

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That is you, many will abuse it out of spite.  Only way this would work is if it was made public who liked/disliked what on the front page.  Currently, it is not so and you are only shown in the forums.

I agree the votes should be public.

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I'm game for public likes / dislikes. Though for some reason when ever I make my polls public people get annoyed. :laugh:

 

 

I agree the votes should be public.

 

Public votes would just put a face to who abuses the system, and who isnt.

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If you don't agree with a comment, why not just discuss it rather than look for a button that conveys disagreement but no rationale for why?

 

If you agree with a comment, why not just discuss it rather than look for a button that conveys agreement but no rationale for why?

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If it's going to happen (which I'm still against) I would much prefer the dislikes to be public. They may limit people down-voting people just because they don't like them (as a person).

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If you agree with a comment, why not just discuss it rather than look for a button that conveys agreement but no rationale for why?

 

Maybe because there is less of a need to explain why you agree with somebody.

If you disagree, it makes sense to explain why you do

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If you agree with a comment, why not just discuss it rather than look for a button that conveys agreement but no rationale for why?

 

Well, normally if you agree with a comment...there isnt much to discuss.  If you dislike or disagree with a comment, then you tend to have your own thoughts and voice your own reason why.

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Maybe because there is less of a need to explain why you agree with somebody.

If you disagree, it makes sense to explain why you do

 

At the same time, I don't want to go into explaining why I disagree I just want to click "disagree"

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If you don't agree with a comment, why not just discuss it rather than look for a button that conveys disagreement but no rationale for why?

Same goes for the "please click here to stroke my ego" "Like" button, no?

 

Public votes would just put a face to who abuses the system, and who isnt.

That is no bad thing.

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At the same time, I don't want to go into explaining why I disagree I just want to click "disagree"

 

So it sounds as if you would rather not do anything, except click buttons.

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Technically in some situations a dislike button can act as "I agree" ...

 

Like on facebook..

 

If someone says "my cat just got ran over by a car" .. there will be a hand full of idiots that click like

at the same time I wish there was a "Dislike"

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At the same time, I don't want to go into explaining why I disagree I just want to click "disagree"

 

Lazy  :laugh:

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Lazy  :laugh:

 

in some situation the topic has been beaten do death like a dead horse, where there is nothing more to say other than just clicking dislike.

 

I would give an example, but it seems when ever I mention a certain persons name my post always disappear like Jimmy Hoffa

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