Forum disagree reply functionality

Your point can be condensed to: people should not be allowed to abuse ratings on the forums in spite because someone did or said something before they didn't like.

However, that is already not allowed, so if you want to fight this or combat this, you could come up with a suggestion that would combat this. Unless someone is clearly spamming disagrees, it is hard to truly prove that someone is abusing ratings. Which makes this a suggestion that is both already in the rules and hard to enforce.

 

I'll build upon the analogy I made because I made a mistake by saying "I can still disagree with you if I don't like the suggestion", which you argued isn't the same as disagree. My intention with the analogy is that regardless of how correct you are, I can still disagree with you. Thus, I'll rephrase this sentence to "I can still disagree with you if I don't think the suggestion is good" to be more clear of what I meant.

To expand on the example...
I could have multiple reasons for disagreeing to go to McDonald's. Please note that these are hypothetical.

1. I most likely will get unhealthy food from McDonald's, which counteracts my exercise
2. McDonald's will affect my finances
3. McDonald's is far and I don't have a reliable transportation
4. I already have food at home, so it would be redundant for me to get food from McDonald's
5. I had McDonald's yesterday so I probably won't even enjoy it as much
6. I have to see my friend soon, and going to McDonald's would make me late

Now, I don't need to list all this out to say I disagree with going to McDonald's. I can simply say "you shouldn't go to McDonald's" and leave it at that. There was nothing wrong in the logic of wanting to go to a McDonald's as much as there's nothing wrong with me disagreeing to it.

You stated "Although I believe is slightly flawed in a sense that you can't disagree with someone elses enjoyment" but this has nothing to do with the point I'm making. It doesn't matter who's speaking and who's disagreeing, or what the topic is, because my point is that the logic can still be disagreed no matter how correct it is. You can bring the most factual statement to me and I can still disagree with you, with or without other facts or reasons. It's also unwise to trust on your own logic - even the smartest people have their facts and knowledge cross-checked by others.

I didn't explain all this before because I wanted to keep the example vague for the sake of delivering the point that I can agree or disagree without listing out the reasons. This point still stands. You may not understand why I disagree, but unfortunately the world is unfair and that is quite frankly none of my problem.

EDIT: to add on, if you wanted to prevent people from abusing reactions to meme or to harass someone, you should instead consider what makes it an abuse and suggest to punish such behavior. Suggesting to remove an entire reaction is an overkill for a minor population abusing the feature. By the same logic, LPQ should've been gone years ago when people used to be able to aggro abuse Alishar. That would have been absurd, as is your suggestion.

 

By what right and logic you judge others disagreement as abuse or not?

Can you sure you won't be wrong at all?

 

Myungsoo's original post was not about determining whether a disagree is abuse or not. They were personally under the impression someone gave them an unwarranted disagree. Their reaction was to just outright remove all ratings.

However, this is not how that works. If you think of ratings abuse as some kind of retaliation or petty behavior, it's essentially a form of passive aggressive online bullying. Trust me when I say that when one avenue of online bullying gets removed, there's plenty left. Removing ratings because they can be abused is a bit extreme. Additionally, any true value of these ratings is not found in the ratings (unless you highly value your own self-worth based on a reflection of what others think of you on an online forum), kimmy mentioned they won't look at ratings specifically for suggestions to be or not be implemented. And outside of the suggestion board, there really isn't much to gain or lose this way.

If you think someone is harrassing you through ratings, you might as well send them a private message on the forums asking for an explanation. That will either provide proof, closure, or it will get ignored (which leaves you where you left off). If you think someone harrassed you, and you think you have plenty proof, might as well report it to the mods. We have moderation for a reason, and just removing all features from a forum because features can be used for goals outside their intended use is not the solution.

 

It seems that this thread is the result of your assumption that you received an unwarranted disagree because you believe they don't like you or are judging you by a past post you made. However it seems to me you are judging others opinions and intentions only because you don't know why they disagree. You are putting too much emotional value in a disagree button. If you feel this person has an issue with you I would suggest talking out your problems with them and if harrassment is truly occurring, reach out to staff. The entirety of forums should not be muted from their opinions because of your feelings of being targeted. This is a personal issue.

As for funny react, this literally was being used to laugh at people and people were saying on discord they were purposely acting in a manner to get funny reacts so this seems more abuse to me than you assuming someone else's intentions of their opinion.