Facebook might think everyone is wearing rose tinted glasses but that's OK, I just won't use it.

Not very realistic is it?
661-Pete wrote:So think again folks! This forum is great! It ain't broken: don't 'fix' it!
661-Pete wrote:NO no no! :evil: A thousand times NO!!!
One of the things that sets this forum a cut above the 'competition' is the absence of upvotes or downvotes. Why do we have to join the masses? Hasn't anyone looked at the Daily Fail comments columns lately? Ok I'm not suggesting it could get as bad as that, but upvotes simply pick out those who 'go with the flow', those who represent the clique. We should be welcoming to all contributors, upvoted or not.
As for downvotes ... well I've seen what that does to 'other places'. People gang up on unpopular members; to me it can only amount to bullying. Do we want that?
I'll make no secret of the fact that I profoundly disagree with almost all the comments of contributor 'Freddie'. Indeed I think that it would be well for much of what he posts here to be ignored. But would I wish him bullied off the forum? Most emphatically, NO!
So think again folks! This forum is great! It ain't broken: don't 'fix' it!
Si wrote:'Like' buttons....fair enough. 'Dislike' buttons....not keen....can make someone feel victimised just because they don't follow the herd, and if disliked it gives no indication why, unlike a reply stating why, and if you have a reply stating why then you don't need the dislike button.
Mick F wrote:What about a "Thank You" button?
Vantage wrote:Technically the Penny Farthing was never broken. People did world tours on it even. But some chap decided not to hold back on progress and now there is almost literally, a bike for every type of person.
Cyclechat seems a friendly enough place with them. I even recently won a trophy cuz so many folk liked one of my posts![]()
What harm could it possibly do?
I'm all in favour of 'polls' where appropriate. If the options in the poll are simply 'agree' and 'disagree', fine. Although we have to remember that voting is optional (as it is in British political elections), so your result is never going to be representative of the whole forum.Psamathe wrote:Or, maybe make it a bit like a "poll" thread where the originating poster can decide if the thread/discussion is suited to like/dislike voting and so to enable/disable those buttons.
I think that it would keep the post-count down.661-Pete wrote:Mick F wrote:What about a "Thank You" button?
No need. If a contributor is particularly helpful - for example in the Bikes & Bits section - what's wrong with simply putting up a "Thank you" post?
661-Pete wrote:Mick F wrote:What about a "Thank You" button?
No need. If a contributor is particularly helpful - for example in the Bikes & Bits section - what's wrong with simply putting up a "Thank you" post?
It encourages laziness. And what's worse, it allows people to hide behind anonymity (I believe that on CC, 'like' votes are identified by username, but that's not how it goes on most forums). OK, like most others on this forum, I don't give out my full name, but within the setting of this forum, everything I post is immediately linked to my username on here, so I'm not really 'anonymous' as an individual on here.mjr wrote:It's make-work. I'd like some way of saying like/agree/thanks so that I spend less time typing and more time riding my bike without feeling that the views of people like me are being dismissed as lone voices. What's wrong with a button for this common action?