Info: Like OMG - Like Feature Feedback Needed

3TrueFans

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Jeremy is the man. Thanks for the help pal!

Honestly guys, by not making the change that we made earlier this week, it would have cost CF thousands of dollars in server space. I appreciate your patience and Jeremy's willingness to help.
I would have thrown in a couple bucks.
 

Cycsk

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Jeremy is the man. Thanks for the help pal!

Honestly guys, by not making the change that we made earlier this week, it would have cost CF thousands of dollars in server space. I appreciate your patience and Jeremy's willingness to help.


We never doubt the sincerity and intentions of the CF leaders. In many ways, the difference between CF and HN has never been more clearly visible than today.
 

cloneswereall

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I think showing the numbers of thumbs up under one's avatar will generate an arms race (or thumbs race) which will render them rather meaningless.

The best thing about the former "like" feature was that it almost always really meant something. Frankly, with how I envision the thumbs being used as I see it now, I would largely stop paying attention to it. Previously, almost every "like" I got was a meaningful gesture by someone who went out of his/her way to give it. And I only gave mine when I really meant it. This new tool looks like it will just flood the board with "thumbs" that really don't mean much. Even Rulzz "likes" were meaningful. Plentiful, but meaningful. The new tool seems like it is begging for us to thumbs up/down each post. If that is your goal, fine, but it doesn't seem like a good replacement for the former "like" functionality.

Did I just turn into a negative Nancy? Well, you know what to do!

That's all that it was in the first place, and why so many people went weird when it was announced it was being disabled. If it didn't have that arbitrary meaning to it, no one would have cared when it went away.
 

Angie

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All it would take to "control" the board is to put a minimum limit of posts required to unlock certain functions and a few clicks by Mods for a few high post abusers of those functions. Once their functions are disabled, they will only be normally bothersome.

But we don't automatically know who is abusing it. The information ideally needs to be reported, and it doesn't always receive reports immediately. And I know it seems like "a few clicks by Mods" isn't a lot of work, but it's actually more work than you'd think - since we want to be fair as mods, we run everything by the whole group. So, we'd need to open up some sort of reporting to the whole group, there'd need to be ad nauseum discussions about it, and parameters set, and then someone would need to be in control of it. Then, we still have to deal with both the initial complaints when someone receives the bad info, and (even worse) the petulant anger from the people who had it taken away.

It's not that we aren't open to stuff, it's just that this is an experiment that we've done before, and it failed miserably. I certainly can't speak for site management, but from the old days, I can tell you it never ends well, and ends with a lot of hurt feelings.
 

Bret44

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The thing about the thumbs up is, before when no one liked your post it was easily glossed over, but now, everyone knows that your post sucks. I like it.
 

3TrueFans

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But we don't automatically know who is abusing it. The information ideally needs to be reported, and it doesn't always receive reports immediately. And I know it seems like "a few clicks by Mods" isn't a lot of work, but it's actually more work than you'd think - since we want to be fair as mods, we run everything by the whole group. So, we'd need to open up some sort of reporting to the whole group, there'd need to be ad nauseum discussions about it, and parameters set, and then someone would need to be in control of it. Then, we still have to deal with both the initial complaints when someone receives the bad info, and (even worse) the petulant anger from the people who had it taken away.

It's not that we aren't open to stuff, it's just that this is an experiment that we've done before, and it failed miserably. I certainly can't speak for site management, but from the old days, I can tell you it never ends well, and ends with a lot of hurt feelings.
Democracy seems like a drag. Time for some dictatorship up in this *****.
 

Angie

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Democracy seems like a drag. Time for some dictatorship up in this *****.

But which mod do you want as supreme overlord? Nobody in their right minds wants Bos to have that kind of power...
 

3TrueFans

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But which mod do you want as supreme overlord? Nobody in their right minds wants Bos to have that kind of power...
Can't be bos. Can't be Cyclonepride. Women are just too unpredictable so you're out. I say mj, he probably doesn't know this but me and him go way back so that has to get me a couple get out of jail free cards.
 

azepp

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Seriously, it takes our IT team at work at least a week to do even the smallest thing and Jeremy comes up with a whole thumbs up system in like 2 hours. Yet another reason that CF > real life.
 

Angie

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Can't be bos. Can't be Cyclonepride. Women are just too unpredictable so you're out. I say mj, he probably doesn't know this but me and him go way back so that has to get me a couple get out of jail free cards.

Our unpredictability is one of our most lovable qualities, fartface.
 

Jer

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Seriously, it takes our IT team at work at least a week to do even the smallest thing and Jeremy comes up with a whole thumbs up system in like 2 hours. Yet another reason that CF > real life.

To be fair, I did start on it about 24 hours ago.
 

cowgirl836

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Seriously, it takes our IT team at work at least a week to do even the smallest thing and Jeremy comes up with a whole thumbs up system in like 2 hours. Yet another reason that CF > real life.


ha, I call ours with small things and I end up just going to Google to figure it out myself.
 

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