Thumbs Up Or Down On Postings

[Nikki1611]

Hi Moderators, just a thought.....could you incorporate the Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down sign on forum pages?

[ShopBoy]

2nd to this. Good post button.

[sbk]

We tried it, it was abused we removed it

Moving to forum support

[Tywais]

As sbk stated, it was tried but was red/green button. It was abused, members arguing/fighting about it, cliques using it for their ego stroking one-upmanship, etc. Too much of a distraction and moderation time to deal with it. Essentially it lost its purpose or meaning along the way.

[smokie36]

Its a load of rubbish. Canned and well rid of.

[Nikki1611]

thanks for the replies to this thread.

[ShopBoy]

I posted the suggestion some times ago. Non replied.

[bkkjames]

I believe the original attempt was a star rating that lead to all the bickering.

A simple thumbs up or down works fine on many forums. You could even add in a fb like button?

A big thing I find tiresome is people quoting 5 paragraphs etc, you could encourage people to use @bkkjames when replying to my post above. It would certainly shorten things up. I know what I posted, no need for someone to copy the entire thing just to reply to it. Newsclipping section needs it the most imo, people quoting the entire newclipping over and over again.

[smokie36]

@bkkjames

[ShopBoy]

@bkkjames @smokie36

[bkkjames]

Dp

Edited September 12, 2011 by bkkjames

[bkkjames]

Funny guys, usually you would post something like:

@smokie, so how's the training for the samui marathon coming, don't worry if you come in bottom 3rd, no chance of relagation,

To which you could reply;

@bkkjames, if it's a drinking marathon, I have no worries of getting relegated, only understood.

[smokie36]

Or @jimbo did you enjoy yer trip to the Trafford Centre....shame ya dunno where the stadium is!

[bkkjames]

@smokies, So you get it now, works good.

No need to bore everyone else with your rants by quoting the same thing over and over again, once was enough.

[smokie36]

@smokies, So you get it now, works good.

No need to bore everyone else with your rants by quoting the same thing over and over again, once was enough.

Some posters like to sit back and admire their work.....and who am I to deny them?

[Atmos]

the endless quoting, re-quoting and so on . . . when i was reliant on an Edge aircard. sit for an eternity (or more!) to find a double screen length post was merely a post with an emoticon and LOL at the end of it. Thanks for nothing!

either as bkkjames suggested, or by referring to the post number, eg, "as stated in #8" . . . no need for the reply button to automatically include the previous post.