Red or Green Flags.... (page 2)

OUTLAW

Here's some questions: would you be interested in having the ability to let your votes be seen? "Bert, Ernie and 10 others like this". How about # of votes given and received on people's profile (are you a negative nelly or mr positivity?) as well as the highest combinations (to show if certain people are always liking / disliking the same posters).....Simon

I`m good with it.....Although......If you post names..

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The Rebel

Simon, thanks for explaining the criteria for the like/dislike feature.

Simon (Q) " Would you be interested in having the ability to let your votes be seen?

The Rebel (A) Yes I would, or rather I would like the ability to explain why I gave a red flag. But i would prefer it being optional as I don't feel the same need to always clarify why I give green flags.

The reason I raised the O.P was because in my opinion discussion SHOULD ALWAYS be based on one thing OPINION, and no rating system should berate that. Yet I sometimes feel comments are down voted only because the posters option is disliked. Personally I have noted posters who make the most interesting comments receive unfair red flags.

So emotion rather than reason should not be a criteria to like/dislike posts.

My other concern with the like/dislike feature is that it can encourage group think.

However personally I believe the like/dislike is a valuable feature, and maybe a way to improve it would be to limit the amount of " votes" ensuring they become something valuable to the poster. I would suggest for every 5 posts that are made allows you one like/dislike.

A further observation if you give a red flag for content, it is often worth doing some formal research as sometimes the content that receives red flags is totally unwarranted.

The Rebel.

slimboyfat

On my screen it appears as thumbs up and down. I'm confused why you're talking about flags. A separate flag option looks like it's for complaining but it's neither green nor red.

The Rebel

Slimboyfat (Q) " On my screen it appears as a thumbs up and down. I'm confused when you're talking about flags"

The Rebel (A) That's why I corrected myself on my second post and reverted to the correct terminology Like/Dislike.

Slim the fact is we can all be padantic and pretend to be " confused" by words so " goodby" to you, or do I mean " goodbuy" or should I simply say " good-bye" :-)

I must correct myself and apologise Slim, in my second post I was still referring to the like/ dislike feature as a red or green flag. I guess I am an idiot.

The Rebel.

Sabin

When I first joined this forum I was not in the best place emotionally getting green flags helped to give me a bit more confidence in expressing myself without fear of how shall I say it, repercussions, like the kind I got from the borg. I was sensitive. I got my first red flag & felt disappointed, then I got a PM from the person, who apologized saying they had done so by accident. They then introduced themselves to me & told me something personal about themselves which I thought was brave. It made me think & I decided I would never give any one a red flag & I haven't, even if I don't like what they say. I will PM them & say my piece if I feel it is personal & the person would not want that put on the forum for every body to see or I will say my piece on a post.

And quite frankly I don't give a flying f...k if you like that answer or no. It does lift one to get a green flag, & the red ones I recommend you ignore.

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