The Dislike Function.

As you wish.

 

I received a dislike once in response to a post stating our govts grown too big. Rest assured, they're disliking the poster, not the message. It's like kindergarten.

 

It's good to see even posters you have on IGNORE can still dislike your posts. I guess Siberia isn't far enough away.

 

Yep, oppression again. Then the poor voter might be forced to buy guns, explosives and body armor and go on a rampage. End the oppression!!

 

Is it any worse then simply posting your opinion on the Internet?

It's a choice. Just like the like button or the ignore list. I enjoy it. Just like I enjoy the like button and my ignore list.

Sounds to me like people are just incapable of handling criticism.

 

Of course it wasn't founded on anything at all bar the fact that some wee laddie with nothing better to do and some knowledge of PHP and SQL decided to come up with a completely pointless add-on to irritate members of forums. Assuming anything else is projecting your personal perception on what you consider your reasons for use of it (ie to avoid debate because you have nothing to say, but feel obliged that your individual liberty means you must make a pointless point.)

Wee laddies/lassies,who write apps, software etc because they can rather than because anyone wants it, and who have nothing better to do, do adding "improvements". There isn't a lot left to introduce as brand new and exciting on the internet atm......most things already exist in various versions of the same basic set-up, so they add bells, whistles and trash to what currently exists and call it "upgrading". Windoze does it with regular monotony.....as does Facebook..... and forums are beginning to resemble playgrounds for toddlers and not vehicles for debate.

Wouldn't mind it if I had the individual liberty to turn it, or either part of it, off altogether....but I can't.....so there is no more individual liberty involved than the Patriot Act offers the American punter.

 

The dislike function is part of our human rights under the categories of free speech, free thought, and peacefully protest an opinion against a group. For Americans its a part of our inalienable rights under the categories of individual liberty and pursuit of happiness.

We all should have the right to freely and expressly dislike an opinion without being forced to give an explanation and free of authoritarianism.

 

You have said that before, and repeating it does not make it any more correct in this context. In fact, in this context it is a sublimely ridiculous post.

Read my lips.......this is a debate forum, in case you hadn't noticed. Where is the need for debate if everybody can just click on a dislike button and then preen themselves because they have made the obvious point that they cannot come up with a sensible post promoting their point of view. Out of interest when did clicking a dislike button become speech, free or otherwise and when did individual posts by individual posters become a group?

The like button does have some merit in that it saves clogging up threads with lots of "Hear!Hear" and "I agree" posts..however, the dislike button stops debate altogether. I myself have on a very few occasions used the dislike button, I admit....but as a reaction to a single post which was so racist/biased/irrational/stupid/abusive etc that it almost equated to flamebait and was not worth dignifying with a written response.

You, however, have just disliked my previous post, which was responding to much the same spurious point you are making in this one.......and have then responded to the post you have already disliked. That, imo, is abusing the system just as much as clicking your way up threads disliking every post which does not agree with your POV.

Lot of people acting like little kids on here, little kids who get a new toy trumpet and blow it obsessively until all the neighbours object, and the parents take it from him and consign it to the dustbin. The PF dustbin is sitting with the lid off, come on admin, be a responsible parent.

 

The dislike function is driven by humanities most basest of impulses, their most basic of needs, their need to not concede.

Therefore it does belong in the context of debate even if it is used without further repudiation.

 

The problem as I see it, arises when those basest impulses are hindered by the fact that, when you receive dislikes, you first need to search posts made by the posters who disliked you, to dislike them back...That process can take some time especially considering the troubles the forum seems to experience at times, and you might end up losing your interest in disliking those posters back.

A simple "I dislike you right back" button next to our received dislikes would speed things up and make disliking people easier.

 

But I prefer to use the like button myself, it's simple and more to the point. The other day I liked a post then realised I had just sent that poster their first like: I almost blushed. It felt like sending a rose to someone while knowing I'm the only one

 

Looking at those who post dislikes at me I think it might be better is we had an 'I am an illiterate racist idiot' function for them to identify their stupidity without wasting other people's time.

 

Someone just proved it! Perhps it's irony?

 

04:42 PM - Xxxxxxxx clicked Dislikes for this post: Obama's Civil War by Smartmouthwoman
04:41 PM - Xxxxxxxx clicked Dislikes for this post: Obama's Civil War by Smartmouthwoman
04:41 PM - Xxxxxxxx clicked Dislikes for this post: Obama's Civil War by Smartmouthwoman
04:41 PM - Xxxxxxxx clicked Dislikes for this post: Obama's Civil War by Smartmouthwoman

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LMAO... how can you NOT luv this place???

 

I spent a day away and noticed a posters negative reputation had increased by one notch. I had a look and discovered he had received 91 dislikes from Nosferax in the space of a few hours. It seems to take away any meaning if nowadays one person can determine the reputation of any poster. I noticed the ability to see who are the kids who have nothing to do but go round internet sites giving dislikes has been removed. I think they should be seen for who they are.