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Agree, insightful, awesome, Lol, WTF, asking for more options.
delete5230
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Agree,insightful, awesome, Lol, WTF
Not sure people would agree but a few more options to express your feelings would be nice.
Big example would be "LoL".... Posters tend to use this for two reactions.
LOL = Funny
LOL = Don't agree
What do you think ?
Unrelated:
The spell checker is the worst on the internet. if anyone know this it would be me !
- one letter off, it can't find the word, where all others it does.
- I've copy and pasted entire post to fix all spelling ..... It's a matter of "lazy" that I still misspell many things here.
Not sure people would agree but a few more options to express your feelings would be nice.
Big example would be "LoL".... Posters tend to use this for two reactions.
LOL = Funny
LOL = Don't agree
What do you think ?
Unrelated:
The spell checker is the worst on the internet. if anyone know this it would be me !
- one letter off, it can't find the word, where all others it does.
- I've copy and pasted entire post to fix all spelling ..... It's a matter of "lazy" that I still misspell many things here.
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For instance in my case.
- LOL is both
- WTF is "post way out of hand", but it could be as simple as don't agree.
Also many nice people may feel it's not nice regardless and never use it.
There was quite a discussion with Bill back in the day over why a "disagree" button wasn't included, his thinking was the site preferred people create a post expressing why they disagreed and not just press a button.
The SBS forums had just an agree/disagree system which was a bit unsatisfying, at least to me as my posts started off with an automatic two or three dislikes, even when I would share totally positive news.
I would have preferred @Scorchien 's STFU button.
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Note: not pertaining to this particular thread, but it would be helpful for most of the OP's threads.
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You are approaching it from an idealist's perspective, where every poster on this forum is an erudite debater, coming here for a stimulating discussion with equally talented and well-meaning posters. Even if someone's post is wrong, it is always well argued and well-meaning, almost like a heated debate of two notable 19th century academics in a newspaper.
We all know that is not the case in internet discussions. You have posters who re-post the same garbage (perhaps slightly re-worded to make it a bit less obvious) over and over again, you have straight-up trolls, you have posters deliberately and maliciously spreading fake information, you have people simply gainsaying anything others post and you have a host of other tools with an agenda, an axe to grind or who simply are having a kick out of disrupting the debate.
Sure, you can spend time arguing your counter-point, but that will never work in these situations - especially not when you have to do it repeatedly - simply because you're not facing a misinformed, but ultimately well-meaning discussion partner.
Right now all negative reactions are dumped under the same WTF button, but I think the forum could use a bit more granularity. The buttons give a good quick overview of the post's contribution to the discussion.
As for me if I see something I'm 100% in disagreement I'll definitely LoL it... then also type.
Well placed emojis are a great tool as well.
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I'd advise anyone else irritated, may be too strong of a word, with this to do the same.
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