Dislike Post Function?

It's either a request for a dislike button or a "Jesus, you're a stupid [****][****][****][****]er!" button.

 

ha.. There is the extended post rating mod but TBH, I've never been a fan of it.

 

It's a double edged sword; with the post ratings mod I've seen the 'Like' function increased but in some case I feel it is at the expense of people posting replies.

 

Might be a bad idea to allow negative rep/dislikes. Seems too easy to abuse, especially in the vBulletin/Internet Brands topics (by both sides).

 

I'm generally opposed but my thought process was that it might save the rash of "You're a [****][****][****][****]tard!" posts that usually occur in those threads. Every discussion ends up derailed. Even less a fan of that than I am of dislikes.

 

I try to have fun with those issues by using a disallowed words list where disallowed words get replaced by words of my choosing. So, for "[****][****][****][****]tard" I would probably set it to be automatically replaced by "sweetheart". "You're a sweetheart!" teaches the members to control the language and causes a few laughs at the same time.

I think that a discussion forum should breed discussion and something like a Dislike button would probably dilute this.

 

I'm not that fussed, but if having a choice would prefer both. But only if there was an option like MyBB has to limit "based on usergroups" you set a limit, how many Likes/Dislikes can be given in a 24 hour period. At least that stops people from spamming LIKES and would also make people think twice about wasting them on posts given - if they can only hand out so many in 24 hours.

 

I have no issue with posting "Jesus, you're a stupid [****][****][****][****]er!" if the situation calls for it.

It's just that some might take that as baiting rather than constructive criticism to learn something about the discussion topic before posting.