Suggestion for this subforum

[DNK]

It would be nice if this forum had a way to "like/dislike" a thread, so we could quickly see the community's feelings on a given idea. Might help Tynan figure out what the most-desired changes are.

[Limdood]

commenting on an idea is far more informative than a simple like/dislike...and to implement ANY feature, extensive brainstorming and testing would need to be done...I'm betting that includes reading all of any threads relating to the topic...the community can think of more potential problems, benefits, and unexpected impacts of any new idea than the developer, and they can only do that thru commenting.

People already "like" suggestion threads by just posting a "+1" if they like an idea and have nothing to add.  Any sort of "dislike" should be accompanied by reasoning though.  The relative rarity of "+1" responses is because this is a very active, diverse community, so when someone posts an idea, it kind of comes alive as people post variations, fixes, problems, and thoughts on it.

[mumblemumble]

Plus,  likes / dislikes really could be misleading... 

Just look at any comment anywhere,  along the lines of  "like if you hate Hitler"  or something stupid,  or,  good ideas which are hard to understand.

I don't think it would be helpful.

[StorymasterQ]

Wow, three posts until the first invocation of Godwin's Law. This must be the cool thread

[Harold3456]

Ironically, there won't be any way to know the community's idea about THIS without the feature.

I like the idea. Comments aren't that much more accurate than likes! Comments just tell you people feel more strongly about the idea (because otherwise they wouldn't comment), but that isn't an accurate representation of the community.

[Limdood]

Ironically, there won't be any way to know the community's idea about THIS without the feature.

I like the idea. Comments aren't that much more accurate than likes! Comments just tell you people feel more strongly about the idea (because otherwise they wouldn't comment), but that isn't an accurate representation of the community.

The problem is that dislikes are important.  Dislikes point out the flaws and opposition to potential new game features.  Both flaws AND opposition are tremendously important, and again, the community will accomplish far more than a few developers at exploring the ramifications of a new feature, and are too useful a tool for determining product satisfaction to ignore.

With dislikes being this important, it is IMPERATIVE that they be properly explained.  As mumble says, the potential for trolling is massive and undermines the very purpose of the system.

[Thane]

Honestly I could take it or leave it. Plus you can just attach a straw poll to the threads if you want to get data like that.

[Harold3456]

With dislikes being this important, it is IMPERATIVE that they be properly explained.  As mumble says, the potential for trolling is massive and undermines the very purpose of the system.

Troll's don't simply lack an explanation, properly explaining dislikes would do nothing, I'm afraid. I think if the forum just suddenly had them, people would get the gist of it pretty quick.

What a lot of forums do is limit your dislikes for the day. That way you can't just go down the list disliking everything and still keep up with the people who are liking.