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thm_w:
Just a theoretical, not that I want it, but what about something like this:



Where the "disagrees" are not tracked in any way outside of that post.



--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on February 18, 2022, 09:42:02 pm ---Life was better when we just posted +1

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It does clog up the forum, IMO the number of people quoting page long posts has now drastically reduced.
magic:

--- Quote from: thm_w on February 18, 2022, 10:26:02 pm ---Where the "disagrees" are not tracked in any way outside of that post.

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Wrong. I will be counting them and posting monthly statistics for everyone to see.
 :-DD
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on February 18, 2022, 09:42:02 pm ---Life was better when we just posted +1

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There's some truth in that.

As Groucho Marx put it, "I wouldn't want to join a club that would have me as a member".

Fundamentally this whole discussion is about a non-problem that doesn't need to be solved!
HobGoblyn:
Sometimes  an expert can be the wrong person to explain things to a beginner.

The thing I’ve often seen, when you are an expert, someone asks a question and you give a reply that makes perfect sense to you, but leaves the question asker totally baffled.

Whereas if someone with a few months/years experience, still very   much an amateur, reads the question, they may remember how they struggled comprehending the same thing and be able to more easily explain to the beginner in a way the beginner understands.


Edit: just read MK14s post 191, their hypothetical question says the same thing, but worded in a much better way
Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: thm_w on February 18, 2022, 10:26:02 pm ---Just a theoretical, not that I want it, but what about something like this:

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What is the purported value of such indication of disagreement?

Earlier, I showed practical examples of why thanks/agreed is useful, but not in numerical form, only when you can check the thankers/agree'ers contemporary posts.  (Which means that I seriously believe it would be best if the names linked to the recent posts of that member.)

Disagreement has negative value, if the reasons for the disagreement are not listed.  (And you're not measuring popularity.)

Voting up and down works, if you want to measure popularity.  If you want to measure anything else, it does not actually work; it eventually devolves into a popularity contest, as shown in other (technical) forums that implement such.  And because humans are social animals, that fosters social gaming, which detracts from the technical discussions.  For examples, see StackOverflow and StackExchange network.
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