Gilly wrote:
Frog wrote:
If someone has said some thing some one thinks is BS and gives a minus surely that is down to them. Why would they need to announce it? How is sneaky good karma any different to sneaky bad Karma.
No, I think I raised elsewhere,here, that I think it's legitimate to express your disapproval by using the minus, without posting, if you don't wish to get dragged into a tedious battle. Personally (though others disagree) that doesn't bother me.
I would imagine most people that would disagree would the the very people that others would rather avoid engaging.
It's purely the situations where a couple of people have thought they're victim to someone (maybe plural) running some kind of on-going grudge against them by doing it all the time that doesn't seem wholesome to me. I'm not keen on that aspect.
I guess the operative words there are 'thought they were victims', thoughts and reality are very often two entirely different things.
Frog wrote:
Removing it will work to the advantage of people who consistently post things in a style or about things others don't agree with, because there is no option available for them to indicate their disapproval, without posting and getting dragged down by the very thing they disapprove of. (That's not meant to change your mind it's just a comment on how it has an effect.)
Yes that's true, but then people can choose to not read posts by people whose opinion they find unpalatable, or to argue the points. Or they could make a comment, then back out, instead of choosing to get deeply embroiled.
What if there is no point to argue? It's kind of hard to ignore everything all of the time especially with quotes and this forum not having an ignore feature. What if someone was not happy with a posters vibe, attitude to others (bullying) etc. Most people aren't confident enough to make a comment about someone attitude and if they are they tend to become victims (hence lack of confidence) or they get sucked in to pointless rounds of nonsense.
It's gone now so it hardly matters. There are as many pros as there are cons, human nature being the single biggest flaw as with most systems.
Bring it back!
