@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:
Frank Apisa wrote:
I agree with Calamity Jane.
If anyone who normally would "thumb up/down" a comment would simply write a quick note of agreement or disagreement...the entire "thumb" fiasco would go away. As would the anonymity.
You're just missing the point by a few thousand miles. Someone is thumbing down nonpolitical/nonphilosophical posts like pictures of kittens and rainbows. Kind of unnerving in their tenacity against harmless and cute thing. No where in my post did I address thumbing down each other's political debate postings.
There is hardly anything to agree or disagree on those feel good threads.
As far as whoever's doing the thumb down thing now, it's apparent it's someone with nothing better to do.
I do feel giving the thumb up/down option is important, but that a lot of people in the world have totally gone bonkers with it.
There's another forum I'm on, that doesn't have this feature, and I miss it. Not for the thumb down option, but for the thumb up.
Sometimes someone says something that I strongly agree with or learned something from. I don't want to comment on it, I simply want to show, well, solidarity sometimes. I don't want to rack up another post saying yet another lol, or "I agree!" or "funny!" or "good point".
Also, from what I can see, if you do feel you need to make a comment on every damn thing someone says, it just opens the door wider for other ususal suspects to respond to you about what you responded, and before you know it, there goes another perfectly good thread.
I don't really need or want the person that posted to know it came from me. Just that someone acknowledged them positively.
However, from my brief experience now on facebook, which I'm totally bored with BTW, people go nuts with posting these little agreement statements that basically boil down to "hey, notice me now, I said something!" I can't say it doesn't appear that I've ever done that on FB, but I avoid it.
Actually if they are animals they are called zoombies .
