What happened to THUMBS DOWN?! Did all the liberal whine and cry and B!7*# until mods and staff finally catered to their precious hurt feelings?????? FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION DEMANDS that we demonstrate our negative and averse opinions!!! Bring thumbs-down back immediately!!!
JMO: Since this is a political forum with a debate section, so it is encouraged that people voice their views. If we were to use the thumbs down, it will show the board how unpopular a post is, but it may also keep people from typing out why they disapprove of the post. All in all, I guess participation in discussion is more encouraged than trying to facilitate a type of popularity contest. I hope this makes sense.
You use your words. Seriously, approving of a post is fairly straight forwards so can be identified with a simple flag. Disagreeing (constructively at least) requires some kind of reasoning and logic.
Instead of criticizing, why not post an intelligent rebuttal of what you don't agree with? Post PROOFS of your claim and increase the intelligence level of the exchange here. That is a much better way to conduct a forum.
There was once. It was abused by a certain group of people who didn't use it to actually vote down posts for their quality but simply because they didn't agree with the views being expressed or even because the person wasn't part of their group.
I don't recall there ever being a "thumbs down". But if so it hasn't been there for many months or years.
Thumbs down? Yea then a whole bunch of people PM each other and say "Hey, anytime so and so posts, thumbs down!". It's a waste of time.
Thumbs for me are like reps..... Which are Like Mardi Gras beads.... To be tossed towards the best racks offered.
It was VERY short lived. But I noticed at some point that my rep dropped a few circles which would take quite a few downvotes. I'm sure you know the group that is likely to have heavily abused it. Most people didn't even know you could downvote because prior to that you couldn't.
I think some people have the thumbs down confused with another site. I don't ever remember thumbs down on this site. There could have been I just don't remember it.
I remember it quite clearly. It allows everybody to express THE TRUTH and to show disfavor to appropriately unfavorable views!!!