Thumbs up feature

Ted01

Ted01

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Sometimes I read a post and want to give it a "thumbs up". Is there a way to implement this? I have seen other forums where right under the post, it says how many "thumbs up" ratings have been given by people who read that post.
 
We used to have a similar feature, with green and red chicklets. But so many people openly solicited friends to pump up their scores or downgrade their enemies, it made a joke of the concept.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
We used to have a similar feature, with green and red chicklets. But so many people openly solicited friends to pump up their scores or downgrade their enemies, it made a joke of the concept.
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This. I've seen that system go bad on several forums already. Bad system.

One site I frequent just has a system of thanking posters. It counts your thanks. There's no thumbs downs on it at all and you can see how many times someone has been thanked. There's no results from having more than others.

Personally, I'm not a fan of stuff like that. Good people with good advice but few thanks will get ignore by people looking for those that have lots of thanks. Even though they got them from "x1000" posts.
 
Sorry to hear that the green/red chicklets system was abused. A way to rate a post "informative" or "funny" could be fun for readers of a post, but I can see it could be abused too.
 
Ted01 said:
Sorry to hear that the green/red chicklets system was abused. A way to rate a post "informative" or "funny" could be fun for readers of a post, but I can see it could be abused too.
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Oh we still have the red chiclet system. ;) We use it when necessary, we even have yellow chiclets as reminders for when people need to behave.
 
Some forums have a "Thank" function. The other forum I frequent, XDA Developers (focusing on Android hacking/development) uses this. There's no "downvoting" or negative feedback. You might think Bladeforums is big, and it's certainly the largest knife discussion forum with nearly 300,000 registered members, over 19,000 of which are "active", but XDA dwarfs this with nearly 7 million members, 359,000+ being "active". Plus all their forums are visible without logging in and searchable via google, so there's countless more that merely read without actually signing up. Anyway, the "Thanks" system works very well there. Perhaps it's due to the sheer amount of members, but outside of individual device forums, there's not much in the way of "cliques" where members artificially inflate each others' status levels by throwing around arbitrary "thanks" (although, to some small degree, it certainly happens). More importantly, anybody can see who "thanked" whom on individual posts, and see every individual "thanked" post for any given member. Perhaps most importantly, it can be disabled on a forum-by-forum basis. The "OT" (which is far more tame than our W&C/Cove) section at XDA doesn't allow "thanks ", so any "rep whoring" type threads are easily culled.

This sort of system might work here, but I can certainly see it getting abused like the reputation system was before (which, in my shame, I was a part of). And naturally, after the failure of the reputation system, any similar type of thing probably won't be implemented. Too much opportunity for abuse.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
6K. A mere newbie. :D
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Hey Methuselah, we're not all as old as you. ;)

Hey Aaron, wanna be friends, I'll give ya green chicklets if you give me green, then we'll gang up on someone we don't like and trash their make believe internet reputation. :rolleyes: Yea you think the post whoring on Billy's thread is bad it was like the wild west back in the day. Virtual reputations were destroyed in virtual minutes. 20 green chicklets turned to red quickly if you were obnoxious to the wrong people. Yea we abused it although I did love the little comments at the bottom as you achieved the different levels of green or red. :)

The red stickies worked like flags in the 1%er forums, usually if you saw a member with 20 red chicklets it was a good bet he deserved them. It would be analogous to a person walking around with chain links hanging around their ankles the longer the chain the bigger the idiot. In theory it worked great. in practice it was an utter failure. Yea I miss 'em too, them wild west days were a blast but bein' a realist I know if they were back the same thing would most likely happen again.

Hey what can I say, we're incorrigible. ;)
 
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