Forum Reputation System Enabled

[Chadonraz]

Any sort of negative reaction button, be it thumbs down, downvote, or something else, is bound to be abused all the time. By trolls, less than friendly individuals, and a whole lot of other kinds of people.
They would also inevitably cause "reaction farming", similar to what anyone who uses Steam forums is bound to have come across in the form of award farming.

There is absolutely zero reason or need for any sort of negative reaction mechanics. They are a downgrade to any forum or social media place that has them, because of people who abuse them. There's a reason they're not around or at least displayed publicly on many sites, including giant ones.
There is also absolutely nothing to be gained from them; if someone disagrees with a post or finds it amusing, they can post a reply saying so (and get moderated if they fail to abide by the rules).

In my opinion, if someone really wants to publicly have a negative reaction to something someone else has posted, they deserve to have to actually type it out so that they have to express themselves in a civil manner. Because we all know what the internet is often like when it comes to negative comments.
 

[mkh97]

On 7/30/2024 at 12:32 AM, sattyre said:

However, I really have noticed that anything remotely to do with a woman's breasts will always get more endorsements/Kudos then anything else.  It's kind of a statement about humanity in a way.

That's true.

Saw someone who has uploaded 10 mods that are all AI-generated porn retextures, nothing else. You know how many Kudos they have? 819, and their account was created 5 months ago. Pretty sure all of those mods was in the hot mods too. It is what it is.

[sattyre]

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8 hours ago, mkh97 said:

Saw someone who has uploaded 10 mods that are all AI-generated porn retextures, nothing else. You know how many Kudos they have? 819, and their account was created 5 months ago. Pretty sure all of those mods was in the hot mods too. It is what it is.

LOL.   I have multiple mods out and the one that got the most endorsements over the shortest time period was a minor mod that simply replaced a stone column with Dibella's statue at her shrine.  Dibella's vanilla statue is if you didn't know, a topless stone statue.

[Karna5]

18 hours ago, sattyre said:

I have multiple mods out and the one that got the most endorsements over the shortest time period was a minor mod that simply replaced a stone column with Dibella's statue at her shrine.

I've been contemplating this, and I do not have a problem with it. Sexuality isn't the only thing which gets a disproportionate number of likes and endorsements. Gun mods and tactical gear get even more.

Usually I stick to the supporter section which has a much smaller community and where people are generally "liking" friends' art rather than sexuality itself, but recently I put a post in the general image share, and I was browsing the other work there and noticed someone's highly sexual post got eight or more times the likes as normal posts.

But the thing is, each like in this case represents someone finding joy. It represents someone who was browsing the internet and said to themselves, I feel better about the universe having seen this.

Whatever the reason someone clicks a like or an endorsement, it's good enough for me. I appreciate the positive nature of it and am not jealous. I am pleased.

For this reason, of course, I am pained when I see forums which allow negative feedback.

A positive feedback betters our world. A negative feedback is poison.

[sattyre]

2 hours ago, Karna5 said:

But the thing is, each like in this case represents someone finding joy. It represents someone who was browsing the internet and said to themselves, I feel better about the universe having seen this.

well said