Bring back the downvote

[-JiZ53-]

Re: Bring back the downvote

Listen, I really don't give a fuck about this button; I just don't think it's necessary to reinstate it.
When it's all up and no downs, it's more just showing strangers you've acknowledged they're active or whatever, it doesn't necessarily mean anyone is jerking anyone. It just becomes the lazy mans way of saying "hey I like your attitude" or "I see you're playing FlashFlashRevolution, I also enjoy this game and I acknowledge you're playing well" There is no detrimental effect from the thumbs up. Though the thumbs down causes nothing but animosity and childish quarrels (much like this one).
I hope this still makes sense in the morning
I vote literally every profile, unless I've been wronged by them; in which case I ignore them. no harm is done by that. those who receive a thumbs up are generally appreciative. those who don't... well there's no negative repercussions from not being voted, cause no one knows who has visited who's profile.
Pros: No animosity, no petty hate
Cons: Xelnya thinks it's a circlejerk, hate becomes verbalised which results in a diminished more-visible animosity.

the thumbs up loses a lot of its meaning without its original counterpart: the thumbs down. for many years the downvote and upvote existed without any problems. if somebody gave you a thumbs up, you knew that they could have given you a thumbs down if they wanted to. if somebody gave you a thumbs down, it still counted towards your profile vote count; this was the way it was for a long time. there was no debate(to my knowledge) amongst the community about removing the downvote. it was changed one day out of nowhere by a user who had just become a part of the development staff. downvotes were removed and so were the vote counts, effectively doing away with years of ffr profile tradition. when you get a notification for a new profile vote, the downvote is still shown in the icon; a bitter reminder of the way things used to be. why was there a change in the first place? that is the real question. why was there no debate before they removed the downvote? i think that we should bring things back to how they used to be.

[Buta-san]

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n

If you really don't like the person or profile why not just tell them on their wall or to their face.

[mrpreggers]

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i like profiles so i know which ones I've visited like this comment if you agree

[_Zenith_]

Re: Bring back the downvote

i like profiles so i know which ones I've visited like this comment if you agree

+1

[Spenner]

Re: Bring back the downvote

n

If you really don't like the person or profile why not just tell them on their wall or to their face.

If you LIKE someone, just tell them to their face. Both in-your-face gestures are more more vivid and pungent. Maybe you don't want to impose that you have hollow, dry hatred for someone to their face? Maybe they've made a public opinion that was really a wrong move. So, you go to thumbs the down, something private, to indicate your narrow slice of opinion of them.

Criticism in the form of a thumbs down, if done constructively, I wholeheartedly agree with. For those people just thumbs-down raiding profiles, who cares? It means nothing. Advertise to people that they need not take the downwards icon as a symbol of being a bad person. It's contextual, and sometimes the context is lack thereof (spammers).

But if you've genuinely been bad at a certain time of your life, what better way to catalog it than looking back at your profile vote history.

Proposal: maybe the option to change your vote. But all in all I vote yes. And with it, a campaign for how to properly receive a thumbs down vote, AND a thumbs up vote. A lot of people fish them out for selfish reasons and don't really mean it. Encourage the voting system being done with intent, and teach people how to properly respond to a vote they might get.

okdone

[omega_grunt666]

Re: Bring back the downvote

I think the point is, its fine to say you like something and leave it at that, but just saying you dislike something isn't constructive. You can comment on a feature or style you dislike and go into your reasoning. And the fact that most people don't really care if you dislike their profile, its not exactly an opt-in system.

Also dislikes being used to voice irrelevant opinions on peoples personal taste, So what if they're a Brony/Furry/Animu. You likely knew that from their avatar and are willingly subjecting yourself to something you already know you find intolerable.

Honestly, I feel it works better as a one vote popularity system, its just a number anyways.

[dashoe93]

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This is literally a picture of a thumbs up or thumbs down on a profile for a Flash game. How anyone got into a debate over this is beyond me.

[Starlight562]

Re: Bring back the downvote

I believe in love and peace so no downvote for me.

I'll go and upvote everyone who commented in this thread if I haven't already.<3

[Mister_Raccoon]

Re: Bring back the downvote

This is literally a picture of a thumbs up or thumbs down on a profile for a Flash game. How anyone got into a debate over this is beyond me.

+300 Street Cred.

[icontrolyourworld]

Re: Bring back the downvote

People who voted no obviously mean to say yes because why else would they downvote the thread?
Bring back downvotes!

[25thhour]

Re: Bring back the downvote

fuck the down vote it was shit some cunt always down voted my beautiful profile pls

[gold stinger]

Re: Bring back the downvote

JiZ just wants downvote so that he can downvote everyone and continue being the edgy whitenoise that he is

[-JiZ53-]

Re: Bring back the downvote

JiZ just wants downvote so that he can downvote everyone and continue being the edgy whitenoise that he is

i dont even know who you are. apparently you know who i am, it's funny how that happens. btw i reported your post because it was rude and uncalled for. this thread is about downvotes and i am not the only person who wishes to bring back downvotes. in fact, i am confident that if i had worded the poll differently then more people would have voted in favor of the downvote. i feel that most of the people who voted have done so frivolously, without putting much thought or care into the issue. reverse psychology is a powerful thing. had i phrased the poll "do you think the down vote shouldnt be an option", the majority of people would probably have still voted no; but that is just a conjecture and i will have to wait another year before i republish another poll for the unwashed masses. maybe the administrators will bring back the downvote before i have to do that, who knows? i still dont understand why the downvote needed to be removed in the first place

[Lambdadelta]

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Wow. I can't even process a scenario where I've hated some random on the internet sooooooo much that my options were either to downvote a profile or spew virulent rhetoric like some weirdo from gaiaonline.

Y'all need some more weed in your lives.

[Mister_Raccoon]

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i dont even know who you are. apparently you know who i am, it's funny how that happens. btw i reported your post because it was rude and uncalled for. this thread is about downvotes and i am not the only person who wishes to bring back downvotes. in fact, i am confident that if i had worded the poll differently then more people would have voted in favor of the downvote. i feel that most of the people who voted have done so frivolously, without putting much thought or care into the issue. reverse psychology is a powerful thing. had i phrased the poll "do you think the down vote shouldnt be an option", the majority of people would probably have still voted no; but that is just a conjecture and i will have to wait another year before i republish another poll for the unwashed masses. maybe the administrators will bring back the downvote before i have to do that, who knows? i still dont understand why the downvote needed to be removed in the first place

Dude you are suuuuuper full of yourself.
He doesn't know who you are. You're the topic creator, the person posing the poll, and so he referred to you by name for that reason and that reason alone.

No amount of wording, rewording, paraphrasing or editing of your original poll would have made a difference. It was a bad idea then. It's a bad idea now. Think about it man, just the way you've presented the question... and the way you've presented yourself... virtually guarantee that if, and I do mean IF, they ever reinstate it... YOU, sir are the most likely one to get bombed with downvotes.

Tell ya what, instead of whining about some arbitrary thing like downvotes, how about play the game? Join a tournament? Make some friends? Play me in USF4 or MK X? Smoke some weed and chill the hell out?

There are better things to do man.