| CrazyGamer2017 said: The interesting thing is a agree with what you are saying but ONLY in REAL LIFE. I consider websites like Facebook extremely dangerous because people put a ton of very real info there: Actual names, face pictures, family members, address, place of work, political opinions etc. How many times I have read in some forums people actually get threatened for something they said? And if you have all your info out there it would be downright dangerous. So your reasoning is not entirely wrong in my opinion but only in real life.... Over here we are anonymous to begin with. Also if someone wants to harass me here, they have plenty of opportunity to do so with my controversial opinions, they really don't need to worry about which comments I like, to have an excuse to harass me if they choose to do so. I can't stop people from hating me if they choose to. Well the only way I can stop it is by simply never writing down my opinions then they wouldn't have any reasons to get on my case. But in that case why even make an account in a forum? Lurking on VGC to look at the charts and the video gaming news is enough. I find it bad enough that in real life one often must shut up because it can be dangerous to freely express oneself so I don't wish to shut up in an anonymous forum just cause someone could get on my case. Also this is part of the fun of being on a forum, exchanging ideas, seeing who agrees with you and who disagrees and why. So about this like system I'll say this: I don't mind a transparent system where your likes are public, but if it bothers some people so much then I'm good too with a like system where only the author of the liked comment knows you liked his/her comment and the like can remain anonymous to everybody else. I'm going to assume that you and everybody else who do not want a transparent like system would agree to this? PS: I just liked your comment I'm replying to. So if someone wants to harass me cause I liked your comment, let them go right ahead and see what happens. |
Actually, threats are a real thing over the internet and it doesn't mean that the disgruntled victim won't track you down either ...
There's many reasons to sign up an account for VGC and maybe they have a goal in mind that they don't want to get into a contentious conflict either so the like system is a way to express persistent beliefs for them ...
And yeah if we're going to make likes transparent then it should only be the author of the comment who realizes their participants business because it's not any of the outsiders concern of who liked the author's posts ...
Edit: LOL, VGP showed up making demands to stop my accused racism but I can tell he doesn't want to have these discussions that causes so much distress for him ...
Last edited by fatslob-:O - on 25 April 2018
