Quoted from EricHadley:I just learned the other day that you can turn off the thumbs up/down system entirely. I now live in blissful harmony not seeing the thumbs up/down and not being able to participate. I’m known for a hard ass down voter and it was causing relationship problems with all of ya on here. Just want you to know if I thumbs downed ya in the past I am sorry. I’ve turned off that feature and will not participate in it anymore. Such blissfulness. Pinside zen.
It just takes self control. I only thumbs-up pinside posts, no thumbs-down for a couple years by design. If I disagree enough with a post to thumbs-down it, I just post explaining why instead. Way more constructive. I'm also not afraid to use the block feature so I just don't see the aggravating crap from some users.
That said, if this solution is working for you, thumbs-up.