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@suzianne saidHear! Hear!
I thought thumbs didn't bother you?
Obviously, they bother you a great deal.
You want to neuter them, just like you got alerts neutered.
Why not just conduct yourselves in the forums like an actual human? Is that too much to ask? Apparently so.
By the way, I've just red-thumbed all of Divestalker's posts in this thread.
I wouldn't want him to think that they're anonymous.
Being such a popular, likable fellow, with hundreds of favorable threads to his credit: He deserves to know which members disagree with his persistent paranoia.
-Removed-But it wasn't being abused. Some people got a majority of alerts because people saw them for what they were... asshats.
It's about time you realize that if you act like an ass, people will respond to you, and if you are just a jerk, you might find their response... unfavorable.
The abusers were the people getting the alerts, for good reason. That's why you insisted they be limited, because you were a butthurt snowflake.
The thumbing function isn't getting abused either. It's just a natural reaction to asshats. But again, you seek redress in the form of limiting the natural response so that you and the rest of the asshats can simply continue being asshats.
@endlame saidThis is more gaslighting.
Only 30 thumbs per month regardless of the color of the thumb.
That would add value to them.
Limiting freedom of expression adds no value, all it does is limit criticism.
You asshats consider this a good thing. So did Stalin.
The ONLY way to add value is to allow people the freedom to disagree. Limiting freedom of expression does the opposite. It doesn't add value, it subtracts value.
The topic of this thread is thumbs. I'd like to propose a simple program change (venda's suggestion above) which I believe would solve the problem once and for all.
Russ, could we please have an option to turn off the visibility of thumbs added to our preference options?
Thumb-haters could forget about them altogether, thumb-lovers wouldn't get so crabby whenever the topic comes up. Win-win.