Don't You Wish There Was A Button That Was The Opposite Of "Recommend"

[THUNDER HANDS]

like "Discard" or something?

[rox63]

1. Yes!!!

:bounce:

[bunnies]

2. Yes, definitely. nt

[polichick]

3. Or "don't bother"

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[Joe the Revelator]

4. Oh hell yes!

I think a "Bullshit" button is key.

[Fridays Child]

5. A way of saying "THIS THREAD SUCKS!" without having to kick the thread by posting to it?

[quinnox]

6. Nope

because it would be abused by people who disagree with you, or have a feud with you, and used to bully people. Like on daily kos.

[ursi]

7. Or a thumbs down

[Vincardog]

8. WE do it is called Ignore.

[Cha]

22. Or a hide a thread..which

I have to start implementing muy pronto~

[99th_Monkey]

9. Yes.. but not in this case .. LOL

I often hang out on Craigs list world politics forum, which does have such an option, and get frustrated sometimes at DU
for lack of it... thanx for giving voice to my frustration..

disclaimer: it isn't too often here that I'd even use it, but it would definitely come in handy occasionally.

[Occam Bandage]

10. So long as you couldn't drop below zero, yes.

[Boojatta]

11. You would need a list of people whose judgment you trust.

The opposite of a recommend from someone not on your list should have -- from your point of view -- no effect.

[bunnies]

12. Funny thing...

I already have a mental list of people I trust... and people I dont.

[Boojatta]

18. Do you propose an anti-anonymous anti-recommend?

[durrrty libby]

13. There is. It's called the scrolly thingy on a computer mouse

It's so easy. I've seen 2 year olds navigate it.

[Flabbergasted]

14. It's actually much simpler than that. It's tempting to disagree with someone....

but more advantageous to let many threads drop like a stone. The only thing that makes the issue is pushing against it. Some people can't keep their knee jerk reaction from kicking really lousy threads.

It's exactly with Munster, for example, wants. He doesn't care if you insult him.

[avrdream]

19. I agree with you about letting threads drop like a stone.

Everytime we post something to argue back against the flame bait we end up kicking it.

I have started to just use that little boxed x button next to the thread title ......and use it again......and again......and again.....

You get the point - it lets the thread go to lala land where it probably belongs.

Frenchie is with me on this and we don't even support the same candidate.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. We should definitely have a"Digg down" button, or a negative rating

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

16. YES! n/t

[bigwillq]

17. That would be fun!

:rofl:

[NastyRiffraff]

20. Oh, GAWD yes!!

Great idea! Not "Discard" though, because some people would "discard" anything they don't happen to agree with. But a ratings system? Cool.

[Cha]

21. DU would be one big

blank thanks to the primary wars.

[AZBlue]

23. Yes! On the local site azcentral.com, there's a thumbs-up and a thumbs-down

method of voting on every post. Very effective!

[JDPriestly]

24. Yes, but I would not like to have someone vote to discard my posts.

[Hobarticus]

25. Nice post, Hitler.

Wouldn't be a complete thread without one!

[AtomicKitten]

26. More like "flush."

[Orangepeel]

27. Yes. I'd like to be able to unrecommend

If a thread had 5 votes and I unrecommended it, it would go back to 4 and someone else would have to recommend before it went to the greatest page. It would only go to the greatest page if a preponderance of people like it.

[Vickers]

31. I like that idea.

:thumbsup:

It seems that no matter *how* stupid a thread is, if it is anti-candidate enough it gets like 9 Recs from the rabid fraction of the opposing camp and ends up on the Greatest Page.

Meanwhile, 400 people think it totally sucks.

[diane in sf]

28. A flush button...

[Reader Rabbit]

29. Personally, I'd love an "Oh, for fuck's sake!" button.

But I'd probably end up with carpel tunnel from clicking it repeatedly.

[Eurobabe]

30. a point system, rank it 1 to 10, 10 sucks.

[NashVegas]

32. "alert"

:)