Discuss the state of the forums and find solutions

[Zkuq]

firebush03 said:

Ryuu96 said:

I want to get rid of the whole downvote and upvote system after initially being in favour of it, I think it harms discussion on both sides and I say that as someone with 14,180 liked posts, Lol. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate people liking my stuff but I think it hurts discussion still. But the last time we polled that, the option to keep it won and I tend to go with what the majority want.

You can block users with supporter but I personally feel everyone should get a number of blocks for free and additional blocks with supporter.

I agree with everything you’ve said here. Perfect solutions imo. I love how Upvotes/Downvotes work on YT, and even more if they were just gone. Outside of the Political forums, I’m not one to be receiving many downvotes…but even still, seeing as to how many comments — of which are *typically* entirely valid, but just don’t conform to the overall opinion of the community — will typically be sent into “-10” territory, I believe this is a big problem.

This is something I've expressed negative feelings about before. I don't really care about upvotes on the forums, but the downvotes are just brutal. I find myself often thinking about how I should phrase myself to not get downvoted, possibly affecting my decision about which of my views to share as well. I try to be reasonable, even if others might disagree with my opinions, but people are quick to downvote. I guess the situation has improved since I last criticized the voting system, or it might just be that I've learned to play the system well enough to get downvoted relatively rarely. Anyway, this is probably useless rambling, because there seems to be little chance of anything getting done to the voting system, as mentioned by Ryuu.