It is only a reflection of the world as it is now. Too many rats in the cage.

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I would never respond to down votes but I do find them interesting. I don't know why the forum has them. It just makes it blatantly obvious there are a lot of crotchety dudes around here spreading their negativity. I try not to downvote anyone but I am sure I have before. Down votes just make me think of this.

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Im going to take a knee on this one!

Could you at least wait until you're in front of me?

The most annoying thing about the up/downvotes for me is it allows people to blatantly participate in prohibited topics, especially political discussions and crude insults, without consequence. Someone can post something saying Trump sucks or NFL players suck, and people can enthusiastically thumb it up and they can do so without fear of moderation. I've done it too - and why not? There's no risk and everybody else is doing it. But it's really not much worse than what the "offender" is doing, and it certainly stokes the prohibited discussion just as much as responding in a post does.

I'm sure all the 12 year old pinball enthusiasts appreciate that.

I agree.... and they're a little cowardly. Upvotes are cool and give people an easy, efficient way to just say "ditto" when that's all that's needed. Down votes are cheap shots. A down vote should require a brief comment as to why. Or better yet, put it on the line with a post and explain yourself. And going anonymous altogether with down votes would be the worst of all solutions. Talk about your mob rule.

Were these new Pinside members?

And me.

Up votes and down votes are good. If you have only upvote and not down votes you end up similar to Facebook where everything is 'likes'. If you can't handle being downvoted then just disable it

Thats my favorite part about it TBH

Yes, I have had a couple of nut jobs become incredibly bent out of shape and PM me because I down voted their post.

I don't reply.

You're going about it all wrong then.

What you do is respond and say "take me out for dinner and a beer and I will reconsider that thumbs down I gave you".

If someone is really stalking you the best thing to do is start a Moderator Feedback thread. It is real easy and sometime they'll tell you some real crazy stories about the person.

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I like the up/down for one purpose only; when I am "behind" on a thread I can quickly find salient points by searching for green or red.

I'm hovering around 80% right now which means 20% of you can shove it!

If i agreed with everyone and they agreed with me there would be something very wrong.

My down votes are badges of honor.

Why not just get rid of the thumbs down all together and make it a better place?

I just disables seeing thumbs down so go crazy guys.

Stern might be offering you a job soon. They like that kind of thinking and attitude.

Your system works...don't remove it. You can't embrace everyone's special needs.

I bet your life is so much better now with safety blanket engaged lol

Oh god here comes 20 straight sarcastic "safe space" and "triggering" posts from the usual suspects...

I know and I agree, my comment was meant to be a lighthearted rib

This is an interesting topic.
I've also been contacted by a few Pinsiders about down-voting asking for me to explain why the down-vote.
It's odd as I then instantly feel bad that I've possibly hurt someone's feelings over my simply just not agreeing with their sentiments on that topic.
I've received some down-votes of which I never quite understood (particularly of when I post a picture of a new pin addition); but I have never thought of PMing the Down-voter to explain why.
In any case, there's much which is good about Pinside and it can be a very helpful forum.

For me, the voting system lets me skim through large threads pretty easily. I scroll through, and stop to read the green ones since they'll usually contain either the answer to the question I'm looking for, or some useful bit of information regarding the topic. Kinda like the key posts, but it helps me follow along a little better since not all threads are keyed.

Same goes for red. It's fun just to see what someone could've possibly said to deserve such a dark red pop bumper cap. At the end of the day though, upvotes, downvotes, leftvotes, rightvotes, diagonalvotes, who cares. We're all gonna die someday anyway. Might as well ignore it and play more pinball.

I don’t think anyone has the guts to downvote this.

+ 1000 thumbs up

Ignore feature is fantastic

Cornelius is back under a different name

Some people go through life with a chip on their shoulder

Some people need to lighten the F up

Trumps players suck

jgentry, he just called you special needs

Challenge accepted. Down vote engaged

Touché... but I know you wouldn’t do it again!

Just looked, I have 3,879 downvotes over the last 6 yrs

Damn I have a lot of PMs to go back and write

3,878 due to your excessive Stern nut swinging. One rogue down vote

I recently posted something I thought was humorous and received a bunch of thumbs down for it and I just laughed. The thumbs up and thumbs down is part of free speech, people have a right to voice their opinion and others have the right to agree or disagree with it. If people can't handle a thumbs down they sure as hell shouldn't be on this site. Plus it saves a bunch of posts from people saying 'you're a moron and you don't know what you're talking about'. Well, it saves a few of those posts...

Maybe for the younger generations but I don't think that's a massive thing here...yet. I don't do any redditing and the shit bags that PM me their sob story aboot me downvoting them seem genuinely tearfull aboot it.
Ha actually some of them are nice but whatever. I chalk it up to the standard people valuing their own opinions more than anyone elses.

Just tell the tools you will take a knee for them
Stupid snowflakes

.....on both sides....both sides......"

Thumbs up jgentry. Ridiculous that pinsiders would PM you for that. . . WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!!!!

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+1

Right on cue

You'd be amazed to know that you don't have to be an old man to find something someone says completely stupid. For instance...when you made a cargument in that thread and I downvoted you. It was because carguments are dumb, and people that use them are usually not that bright and out of touch with the world. Actually...I forget what thread that was somethting aboot programming? Anyway you made a lot of dumb points (it's OK i have a ton of dumb points). And as people kept pointing out how dumb they were you kept making newer, dumber ones. Dumpster fire city.
Anyway, I guess I should have just downvoted your this post instead of going in to detail aboot how dumb some of your posts are to me but I try not to use them.

Corny's back?

I doubt it. He'd out himself in about 10 minutes. There's only one Cornelius!

lol thread of the month on pinside I just randomly voted up and down a bunch of posts

Now THAT's a guy that could PM you aboot downvotes.

I actually specifically used the term dude and not "old man" in my post. Yet here you are with the negativity and aggression. You basically make my case. No idea what is up your arse today.

A thumb.

Oh yeah, I get lots of thumbs down(which mostly make me laugh) and have given thumbs down. I have also been given the 3rd degree in PM as to why I have thumbed someone down. Quite frankly, if you are that thin skinned and insecure that you have to question a Pinside thumbs down by PM, you should LEAVE Pinside. Hell, you should leave the internet. Ask me in the same thread thread why I did it, I may decide to give you answer. At least it will be honest, but you might not like it.

You know I'm not very good at reading entire posts. I also don't think you really get the jist of your own.

I just honored you. Feel free to do the same.

What do you mean could? He did, and did it to several here. Myself included.

What he really hated most was the old white rich echo chamber I lived in. Even though I was younger & made less monies then him, and disagree with most people on this site.
Man those were the glory days of Pinside.