Quoted from dapperdan24:I am a little late to the party here, but I agree completely with this. Thumbs down is an important feature, even if it is misused from time to time. My best example would be when I was targeted as a bad seller by another member of Pinside and the thumbs down count to show opposition to a ridiculous claim made against me really showed how far off base the claim was (his initial post reached 40 or 50 down votes in total, maybe more). Looking back on that thread now, you can still read through the many posts to find out the story, but before, it was very clear right out of the gate that it was a baseless claim. Where one or two thumbs down don't wall very loudly(if abused) tens of down votes let the reader know right away to be suspicious as the community has spoken in one voice against misdirection. It appears that we are headed back to the thumbs down system anyway, but just to add my opinion, it is helpful and I'd like to see it again.
That is a pretty compelling reason to have it back I will agree. But in your case someone was spreading false statements, I would contend that something (I'm not sure what) that is even stronger than a bunch of folks thumbs downing the posts needed to happen. There is already a link at the bottom labeled "Report post for...", I have never clicked on that but it sounds like your situation probably fell into that, and maybe by going that route the nonsense post would have just been removed by the moderators?
As you say it's probably coming back anyway. I would still vote for a system where if people go into the settings and "opt out" of the thumbing system that all of their posts be included in that decision as well. That way folks that truly enjoy that experience can have it, and folks that don't are 100% out of it.
