Dislike button for the new forums...

Which is 100% the purpose of a discussion forum.

Ego death is healthy, everyone will survive.

+1

Also, give us back a rants and flames section.

Next up is...?

Tie the dislike button to the Achievement score. The higher your score, the more dislikes you can make.

I highly doubt the dislike system will get someone banned, that would be a really dumb system to use on your forums. More than likely, it will notify the moderator that a post has received a ton of dislikes and needs reviewed. The moderator can then review the post and see if people are just abusing the dislike button.

More buttons would just make it more complicated and dislikes can be countered with likes. I assume that it would split the users even more and that people would dislike the posts of other users just by revenge. Like is "clapping" and dislike is calling "booooh". Both are manipulative features that do further imature behaviour and that do not contribute anything to a post and a discussion. Buttons do even prevent debates as they do get used instead of posting a reply. I still think it would be better not to have buttons.

Once again, and everyone do please pay attention. Our biweekly meeting of the curmudgeon's club is tonight. Sausage pizza will be served. We could get cheese too if folks want. Anyway, do be on time for the meeting. And can anyone bring a halfling piñata? The halfling I captured got loose and ran away. Bit of business, it is BYOB tonight. The dweebs on the dwarven council ran off with the ale again.

Just practicing for the upcoming dislike trophy.

It does mean that user opinions are not very reliable. The devs can have a different point of view from a dev perspective.

Hmm There could be a whole series of forum quests based upon this idea. Wheels begin to turn.

+1 to insightful, interesting, informative.

You mean like the Fires of Heaven forums which are a paragon of civility and erudition?

All I will say is be careful of what you wish for.

I am not going to panic about any features before I know how they work. I have things I can panic about now without adding to them

Lets wait and see what we get before we make up ways it will be used.

It is eaten only half as hot as it was cooked.

And if they over think it, it could be twice baked.

I suspect the dislike button is being implemented for a couple of reasons. An easy one is that it has just simply been something that many people have wanted. (I'm among them)

But I would not be surprised if the forum rules would be tweaked in some way that if you have something negative to say about a person's post, they don't want you to post it anymore. They would just want you to dislike it.

I'm not saying I would like that change, but it seems probable that they would implement something close to it.

My guess is its like youtube dislike. No one but you and the moderators see it.

Well, that's going to be disappointing. Probably right though. A shame since I was going to use another account to dislike everything I post.

If you'd like, I can do that for you

I would guess it is more along the lines of new functionality that the upgraded forums have by default and they are just not disabling it.