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AH full of people trying to be funny and failing
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Very true... see here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056583713 (Post #15)
or here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056584653 (Post #6)
Finally, someone who wants to play along with the idea of this thread
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Fighting Irish wrote: »I usually "thank" stuff that's funny enough though the "thank" system is ghey, well a thank system like reddit is great but thats never gonna happen here
I'm still not too sure about the reddit system tbh.
It makes sense for reddit as they have the whole frontpage thing goin' on. Worthwile stuff will get to the front page so its kinda like a quality control measure. So if someone thinks a topic/pic/whatever isn't frontpage worthy they can downvote it so it will get less exposure. But you can see a problem with that already. Sometimes people downvote stuff for personal and petty reasons, and aren't as objective as they'd like to think they are.
Imagine we had that on boards. Boards is a relatively smaller community to reddit. Regulars know each other quite well... and some regulars don't really like others for reasons A, B, or C. Lets say, for example, someone posts something in AH (be it a topic or comment or whatever). Someone downvotes it for a completely unrelated reason maybe because they disagreed on another forum about some unrelated topic, and of course they kinda took it personally. If you only have the ability to upvote (thank) a post, then you can't downvote it for some stupid petty personal or unrelated reason. If you don't like something you can simply not thank it and move on.
Reddit could still use the boards system for quality control anyway and it would still work out fine. Boards uses it for post of the day and it still works out fine.
Both have their problems, but I think I'd go with the thank system if I HAD to choose simply for the above reasons.
Besides, the thank system lessens all the "this" and "+1" bullshit
. At least if someone dislikes something and wants others to know, pressure gets put on them to give reasons why.
Why do you prefer the reddit system anyway? :pac:0 -
Fighting Irish wrote: »I'm all for fun and games, but it's just so cringe
It's cringe to you and funny to others, what difference does it make who laughs or who thanks other posters.0 -
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Fighting Irish wrote: »The "thanks" button has ruined AH but lets see who can find the unfunniest reply ever
Here's an example:
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Chape laughs are what made this country great.
Laughs on credit ruined it
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I'm still not too sure about the reddit system tbh.
It makes sense for reddit as they have the whole frontpage thing goin' on. Worthwile stuff will get to the front page so its kinda like a quality control measure. So if someone thinks a topic/pic/whatever isn't frontpage worthy they can downvote it so it will get less exposure. But you can see a problem with that already. Sometimes people downvote stuff for personal and petty reasons, and aren't as objective as they'd like to think they are.
Imagine we had that on boards. Boards is a relatively smaller community to reddit. Regulars know each other quite well... and some regulars don't really like others for reasons A, B, or C. Lets say, for example, someone posts something in AH (be it a topic or comment or whatever). Someone downvotes it for a completely unrelated reason maybe because they disagreed on another forum about some unrelated topic, and of course they kinda took it personally. If you only have the ability to upvote (thank) a post, then you can't downvote it for some stupid petty personal or unrelated reason. If you don't like something you can simply not thank it and move on.
Reddit could still use the boards system for quality control anyway and it would still work out fine. Boards uses it for post of the day and it still works out fine.
Both have their problems, but I think I'd go with the thank system if I HAD to choose simply for the above reasons.
Besides, the thank system lessens all the "this" and "+1" bullshit. At least if someone dislikes something and wants others to know, pressure gets put on them to give reasons why.
Why do you prefer the reddit system anyway? :pac:
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I'm still not too sure about the reddit system tbh.
It makes sense for reddit as they have the whole frontpage thing goin' on. Worthwile stuff will get to the front page so its kinda like a quality control measure. So if someone thinks a topic/pic/whatever isn't frontpage worthy they can downvote it so it will get less exposure. But you can see a problem with that already. Sometimes people downvote stuff for personal and petty reasons, and aren't as objective as they'd like to think they are.
Imagine we had that on boards. Boards is a relatively smaller community to reddit. Regulars know each other quite well... and some regulars don't really like others for reasons A, B, or C. Lets say, for example, someone posts something in AH (be it a topic or comment or whatever). Someone downvotes it for a completely unrelated reason maybe because they disagreed on another forum about some unrelated topic, and of course they kinda took it personally. If you only have the ability to upvote (thank) a post, then you can't downvote it for some stupid petty personal or unrelated reason. If you don't like something you can simply not thank it and move on.
Reddit could still use the boards system for quality control anyway and it would still work out fine. Boards uses it for post of the day and it still works out fine.
Both have their problems, but I think I'd go with the thank system if I HAD to choose simply for the above reasons.
Besides, the thank system lessens all the "this" and "+1" bullshit. At least if someone dislikes something and wants others to know, pressure gets put on them to give reasons why.
Why do you prefer the reddit system anyway? :pac:
reddit is the new forum type of the future, mark my words!0 -
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