@ponderable saidAbsolutely nothing at RHP is anywhere near the bigger frame of things. There's nothing wrong with doing little things that make this site better.
So how important is this in the bigger frame of things?
If any individual (subscriber or not) is distressed over seeing a thumb count on his messages, why not allow them to disable it? For themselves that is, not for everyone else.
Some people are distressed by it and some aren't, so why not let everyone decide for themselves if they want to see an approval/disapproval rating?
I'm suggesting it could be made invisible only to the person who doesn't want to see it
@kilroy70 saidThis suggestion was already made maybe a dozen pages ago. The interesting thing about making it possible for the recipient of thumbs to disable them [so that they alone don't see them] is that several of the supporters of the feature argue that it is a chance to send a message to the recipient.
If any individual (subscriber or not) is distressed over seeing a thumb count on his messages, why not allow them to disable it? For themselves that is, not for everyone else.
Some people are distressed by it and some aren't, so why not let everyone decide for themselves if they want to see an approval/disapproval rating?
I'm suggesting it could be made invisible only to the person who doesn't want to see it
@fmf saidNo, there's not.
There's nothing wrong with doing little things that make this site better.
But this "suggestion" will result in people making bad posting decisions getting less pushback about their bad posting decisions. One can easily see why you two, out of all the posters on this site, are the most vocal about either restricting the feature or making it not anonymous, so that you can easily endlessly berate those who disagree with you.
Because that IS what would happen. And everyone knows it.
And that would make this site and its forums worse, not better.
