quote Magimaster

Eh, that's what I thought. But a lot more of his posts are actually coherent now. Congrats FB! But I'd like to reiterate my belief on bringing back the thumbs-down feature in some way or the other.

quote Final Blade

_{Smoke Yea it would be cause tbh it proves how scared you are just thumbing down a post without replying back which was the case majority of the time, which fits into the abusing part when posts of good quality shouldn't have been thumbed down.}

quote Smoke N a Pancake

That might be the single most ridiculous quote I've seen in this thread. Are you suggesting that I just go around thumbing people down for shits and giggles? Hell no, and if I disagree with something and feel the need to respond I do, which is pretty clear if you went and actually saw my Gamegrep comments.

quote Gothic Girl

Ever since the thumbs-down feature was taken away, it seems that Gamegrep's comments section has gotten stupider and more insulting than it's ever been. >_>

quote Gothic Girl

I agree with kik36 ... Putting a limit on thumbs-up/thumbs-down might keep people mindful of what they are really rating.

Another System Altogether

quote Redemption

quote Gothic Girl

I agree with kik36 ... Putting a limit on thumbs-up/thumbs-down might keep people mindful of what they are really rating.

What kinds of limits would people suggest? If we had a limit system I wonder if we should limit how many thumbs a person can issue per 24hrs and how many of those thumbs can be used in a single thread. If we can nail down some specifics we could implement them and restore thumbs down with the result of it hopefully being abused less frequently.

Probably we can do the following in a relatively short time:

1. show a list of thumbers, and what they thumbed
2. limit the number of thumbs you can issue per day (but how do we determine how many you can issue?)
3. limit thumbing to participants of a story and/or participants on GameGrep.

If we can determine the actual limits on #2 and #3 then we can start this ball really rolling.


!!Another System Altogether I still feel like we should replace thumbs altogether with a single word descriptor that people can rate.

Eg:

• Funny
• Informative
• Interesting

Then the number of people who tag the comment with each of those tags would increase its total score, to a total of +5, along with the one word descripting.

eg Funny +3

I consider this system a "Recommendation" system rather than a rating system, you are recommending others that that a comment is worth checking out and why.

This is pretty much what Slashdot does, and I was intending on adding it as a feature for forum thread recommendations. In the forum system, you would then be able to see what threads are "Recommended" that day, even perhaps by friends.

However, if a simple thumbs limit set of rules could be suggested we could implement that first and relatively quickly.

quote Silver Mirror

I like the second one, but maybe add some more options. Like not-funny, biased and boring. With a limit per day like suggested.