A "no thanks" button

Kennie1

We have a "thanks" button on boards if we agree with a post or enjoy a comment etc but should we have a "no thanks" button to show our distaste?

Having read some outrageous comments here on some threads by some wnakers about this and that, I think it would be quite useful. What do you think?

flutterflye

No thanks.

Killer Pigeon

+1

Gordon

Gosh, is it Tuesday already!

Chuck Stone

Just thank the sarky comment which turns up underneath.

biko

Discussed and turned down many times in Feedback forum.

krudler

It'd just breed more politics and sh1t, no thanks

Mike 1972

Kennie1 wrote: »

We have a "thanks" button on boards if we agree with a post or enjoy a comment etc but should we have a "no thanks" button to show our distaste?

All you need to do is call the poster in question an idiot without actually calling the poster in question an idiot.

Washington Irving

No, it would just be abused

phasers

-1

Everyone would just 'no thanks' the users they hate, and my ego can't take a beating like that

Gummy Panda

We had a negative rep button one time but it caused flame wars

SuperInfinity

Aggregating negative/positive rep is dumb because it matters a great deal how many up or down they received. I also think a user should put their user name to it every time they give a rep. So IMO a "no thanks" button would be really helpful and I can't understnad how it could be turned down.

So we're able to give positive feedback but not negative feedback? Is that not a terribly inefficient feedback process and a part of the bs that is bringing down the world today? If you can't say something nice don't say it at all? That shouldn't be at the expense of honest feedback so people know what other people like or dislike about their posting (which they are free to ignore). A little honesty never hurt anyone.

Alter-Ego

Gummy Panda wrote: »

We had a negative rep button one time but it caused flame wars

Yeah, but flame wars are the reason Al Gore invented the internet.

Killer Pigeon

Gummy Panda wrote: »

We had a negative rep button one time but it caused flame wars

More work for the mods then.

mackg

phasers wrote: »

-1

Everyone would just 'no thanks' the users they hate, and my ego can't take a beating like that

Exactly this, you disagreed with me earlier now I'm going to dislike every post you ever make

SuperInfinity wrote: »

Aggregating negative/positive rep is dumb because it matters a great deal how many up or down they received. I also think a user should put their user name to it every time they give a rep. So IMO a "no thanks" button would be really helpful and I can't understnad how it could be turned down.

So we're able to give positive feedback but not negative feedback? Is that not a terribly inefficient feedback process? If you can't say something nice don't say it at all? That shouldn't be at the expense of honest feedback so people know what other people like or dislike about their posting (which they are free to ignore). A little honesty never hurt anyone.

If you disagree to that extent quote the post and explain what your problem is. If you have a problem with their posting overall PM them no need to have a go at them in a thread IMO

mikemac

I wouldn't mind this forum specifically having the thanks feature taken down, even for a week or two weeks

We managed without it for years

Samich

there'd be way too many posts with thanks though.

I like to quickly scan over posts to see the most thanked as it is obviously the best/funniest, the rest are just a waste

Big Nasty

biko wrote: »

Discussed and turned down many times in Feedback forum.

What were the reasone against it?

Almost 3/4 of the voters (to date) are in favour of it. Personally I'm all for it and would take it as far as for each poster to have a kudos rating based on their thumbs up vs thumbs down count. Easy way to weed out the trolls and would / should put more 'value', be it negative or positive, on a users posts - kind of like a credibility rating.

Mike 1972

mikemac wrote: »

I wouldn't mind this forum specifically having the thanks feature taken down....We managed without it for years

By that logic they could take the entire internet down seeing as how we managed without it.

The Ironic thing about that post is that someone thanked it

Dudess

Done to death OP - if you disagree with something, seems reasonable to explain why. The thanks button on the other hand though eliminates lots of "Well said" posts that don't require explanation.

Gummy Panda

Seriously boards is way too cliquie for a no thanks button. It will just provoke people, just like the idea of showing a post was reported. We'll have posts saying "why did you neg me?".

The idea behind thanks is that it's just a positive contribution by one poster to another.


tl;dr Boards.ie posters are too stupid to not abuse it

mconigol

OP

Step 1: look up to the top left corner of our browser.

See that backwards pointing arrow?????

Step 2: Press it

Magic eh..???!

Micky Dolenz

See here.