An idea for improving the “thumbs” feature

@divegeester said
But them muttering “hear hear” isn’t anonymous, so I don’t see a comparison with anonymous thumbs.

@moonbus said
Yes, we all see that you never saw the point. What we all also see is that it bothers you. You keep bringing it up , again and again. You can’t deal with anonymous criticism; we get that.

@divegeester said
You didn’t have a point, your analogy was moot.

Never mind all your other jazz-handed obfuscation.

@moonbus said
A viable solution has been proposed: keep thumbs, keep them anonymous, offer a switch to make them invisible to those who don’t want to see them. Fine by me.

@woofwoof said
Seeing the red thumbs isn't what's bothering Divegeester: What bothers him is that, others can see the red thumbs.

He wants his cake and a funnel to stuff it too!

Divegeester has fancied himself quite the influential fellow. But his excess ego will not allow him to accept the "consequences in feedback" earned by his caustic behavior.

Because the red thumbs represen ...[text shortened]... il against them.

The anonymous posting feedback provided by the simple thumb-click should remain.

@fmf said
Nope. What I said was: I don't see how anyone's "freedom to disagree" is affected by limiting the number of red and green thumbs they can give over a period of time.

@divegeester said
Clearly you haven’t read my excellent OP suggestion which is both site and poster friendly, and does not suggest doing away with thumbs.

What implementing my suggestion would do is satisfy all parties, except those who use multiple accounts to devalue the feature.

Simple, clean and unilaterally satisfying.

@divegeester said
Clearly you haven’t read my excellent OP suggestion which is both site and poster friendly, and does not suggest doing away with thumbs.

What implementing my suggestion would do is satisfy all parties, except those who use multiple accounts to devalue the feature.

Simple, clean and unilaterally satisfying.

@divegeester said
The supposedly erudite, principled and unbiased @Ponderable was also one of the first to join this club. An invitation he accepted from a poster serving a 1000 day ban for repeatedly trolling and posting abuse and whom he never once publicly reprimanded for it.

It’s interesting.

@divegeester said
Clearly you haven’t read my excellent OP suggestion which is both site and poster friendly, and does not suggest doing away with thumbs.

What implementing my suggestion would do is satisfy all parties, except those who use multiple accounts to devalue the feature.

Simple, clean and unilaterally satisfying.

@divegeester

The real issue here is not thumbs. The real issue is that you (and @fmf) reap a large amount of negative feedback which you think is unfair and you suspect that it is due to a small number of posters who have multiple accounts. That is the real issue here. Eliminating the thumbs feature is not the solution; it would unfairly penalize the many posters here who like the feature and do not abuse it. The correct solution is for site admin to determine whether your (and @fmf's) suspicion is correct and, if so, to eliminate duplicate accounts.

I have no doubt that server logs would identify posters who log on just long enough to TD your posts and log off again, sequentially within a short period of time, and never make moves in games; a script could be written to automatically comb the log files and spit out the usernames which fit this pattern.

Given that site admin probably has better things to do, Kewpie's suggestion is a good solution and easy to code: a switch so you and @fmf don't have to see the thumbs, but the feature remains active and anonymous for everyone else.

@moonbus said
@divegeester

The real issue here is not thumbs. The real issue is that you (and @fmf) reap a large amount of negative feedback which you think is unfair and you suspect that it is due to a small number of posters who have multiple accounts. That is the real issue here. Eliminating the thumbs feature is not the solution; it would unfairly penalize the many posters he ...[text shortened]... d @fmf don't have to see the thumbs, but the feature remains active and anonymous for everyone else.

@suzianne said
So are you once again calling people out for not reprimanding other posters that you don't like?

I don't think he's exactly crying himself to sleep at night because you disapprove of his non-support of your abuse of other posters.

@suzianne said
What you're fighting against is widespread public disapproval of your posting methods.

Stalin also silenced his critics. You see nothing wrong with that.

@a-unique-nickname said
Wow, can you stop with the Stalin references already.