Before anybody goes hating and down rating me, this has nothing to do with being downrated to the point that it could be called an attack. But some people try to have good posts, like me.

So here is my actually suggestion: If you up vote a post, you should have to give a reason, and it has to be approved. If you down vote a post, you should also have to give a reason, but if it deemed that the down vote is unwarranted, then maybe a system of like... once you hit 10, you get a warning, then a 1 day ban on the 2nd offense, because you are down voting posts for no reason, or because you don't like the person.

This is just a suggestion. Please don't down vote me because you think that this is spammy, because it is not, at least, I don't see how it is, and if you think it is, tell me so that I can fix it in future posts. Don't down vote me just because you don't like me. Have a good reason if you are going to down vote somebody. That is what I am petitioning to fix.

It could work but it seems like they would need to get another staff or someone to actually do that. I think it is a good idea just maybe a hard one to put in to effect due to some posts getting a rapid amount of likes and dislikes.

thing1 : It would seem like too much effort to do this for every single post probably leading to almost no people up voting or down voting a post and it would also create a lot of extra work having to check the reason for up voting and/or down voting. I think the current post rating system is fine.

Zlinqx :
awesomeguy279 :

I guess if I was in charge of this, I would hire 2 or 3 people, max, and their job would be specifically this. There is a queue of votes that need to be reviewed, and they get a week to accept or decline the vote rating.

thing1 : Well I'm not saying it couldn't work but it would seem like too much effort for it to be worthwhile really. I could be wrong though who knows. I also don't like how it would potentially make it so that someone who is hired can potentially ban people by not approving the reason they're liking or disliking posts. Meaning you would have to give this job to the moderators and that would be too much work at once.

Again leading to it creating ALOT more work for little to no payout.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

The system works well for the most part, and I don't see a reason to complicate things and implement this.

If you think that someone in particular is abusing the system, or that the system is being abused against you, contact the globals. They can check whether there's abuse going on.

EideticMemory : Exactly my thoughts. Imo, it'd just be extra work. People don't abuse it, at least from what I've seen. If they dislike a post, they hit 'dislike'. If they like a post, they hit 'Like'. I don't see people abusing it, at least not these days.

thing1 : yeah, I think that is good.

Well, when it comes to getting staff positions, or TP, or other things, people look at Post Ratings. I mean, I know I would. And you can stop people you don't want getting trusted or a staff position by attacking them. That is why I think the idea should should be scraped, or should have some way to moderate it.

Barathemos : If I'm being 100% honest, I don't see people attacking you. They rate you as they believe your post deserves, and that's what I've seen. I don't think your posts have been attacked, but rather rated as the readers have seen fit. Perhaps there is the occasional person who downrates just to downrate, but I don't think that's the normal. No offense meant.

It really doesn't matter. Even if you had a post rating of negative trillion, it won't affect you in any way. 

People just like or dislike posts based on their opinion. Or they dislike posts because they feel offended or they indeed try to attack. 

But if there was abuse (or an "attack") going on, as has already been said, contact the globals and they'll see if things are being abused or not. 

mrfe : if you've seen some of my posts, like a few of my good reviews, they are disliked and eve the globals have no explication.

Barathemos : I was not aware that some of your reviews were rated down as well. Thanks for letting me know.

While I haven't personally witnessed much disliking going on unfairly, I have seen some people getting likes for no reason. Without listing names, I've noticed one member in particular with literally hundreds of likes despite being one of the most spam prone people on the site.

In the end though, I don't think it really matters yet. If the post rating system ever becomes something particularly important, then I could see changing it up. As for staff, all I personally pay attention to is their general attitude, whether they get in trouble a lot, and their work samples. Beyond that, I don't care. Heck, I don't even care if they 0 TP if they aren't bad members and do their work well. But that's just my two cents.

Eirinn : I was just about to post about this exact thing. And if you're talking about the same ones i am they have already been accused of their accounts being the same person. Since every post they make is liked by each other and they joined around the same time and almost have the same birthdays (i think)

I think this would be a great idea, but only for downvoting. Maybe it doesn't even have to get approved, maybe you check off a reason and then all the reasons and downvotes get stored somewhere until the end of the week or sometime and then it gets checked.

Eirinn :

I so agree with you on the Like abuse. Personally, I think  Like or Dislike should both be equal in terms of using them. I've noticed some users, if they even get one dislike on their post, a flood of friends just pop in and like it up! That or only able to like or dislike one particular user once a day in addition to the current mechanics...

I agree a change should be made in general, thing, but your way unfortunately is a bit too much work for staff to handle. Basically asking for Karma Police.

Problem I see with this is that there really is no way to 'police' it. You say they should have to give a reason. The purpose of the like/dislike is to say you either like a post or you dislike it. Nothing more. So really, the ONLY reason someone should have to have to dislike a post is because they didn't like it. So, that is all they would have to, in a nutshell, say. "I didn't like what the user said". Now, if the post rating system was supposed to be something other than to say a user particularly liked or disliked what a post said, then maybe something like this would be practical. But when the only purpose is to say you either like or dislike something said, it is just a waste to police it.

I don't really see a point in over complicating something so simple, it is just meant to indicate your stance on someone else's post, and the only reason it would be disliked would be because you don't agree.


Then their is the problem of looking over it, it is a lot of work just to go through posts and read them just to accept or decline the post ratings....and overall it would ultimately discourage people from liking or disliking posts in general, so I think it is best to just leave it the way it is rather than monitor every post that gets a like/dislike. 

Eirinn?and anyone who knows the answer can respond: I wonder? Am I being spammy or not a good member if I like to many people's post in one thread? For example, when I like people's post because they have posted a message about music they listen to and I give the music a try by listening to it myself, then liking the person's post because I like the music they posted for a recommendation or saying that they listen to some kind of music that I end up liking when I listened to it (I actually do this on one thread about music people are listening to now). Also if I don't like someone's music in the thread I listened to, I don't dislike their post, I just go on to the next post because I know it's something they like and I can't really judge them for it or dislike their post because of it.I hope it's just as "mrfe"


said that people are liking or disliking a post as they see fit, but I could be wrong. I also agree with the post rating system now, but sometimes if my post got disliked maybe I would like an explanation as to why they disliked my post, but I also agree with that kind of post rating system it would be hard to supervise the system, so I would mostly recommend to keep the system as it is now.