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@moonbus saidSeeing the red thumbs isn't what's bothering Divegeester: What bothers him is that, others can see the red thumbs.
A viable solution has been proposed: keep thumbs, keep them anonymous, offer a switch to make them invisible to those who don’t want to see them. Fine by me.
He wants his cake and a funnel to stuff it too!
Divegeester has fancied himself quite the influential fellow. But his excess ego will not allow him to accept the "consequences in feedback" earned by his caustic behavior.
Because the red thumbs represent a reaction opposite to the one that he feels he deserves; Divegeester will continue to rail against them.
The anonymous posting feedback provided by the simple thumb-click should remain.
@fmf saidWhat you're fighting against is widespread public disapproval of your posting methods.
Nope. What I said was: I don't see how anyone's "freedom to disagree" is affected by limiting the number of red and green thumbs they can give over a period of time.
Stalin also silenced his critics. You see nothing wrong with that.
@divegeester
The real issue here is not thumbs. The real issue is that you (and @fmf) reap a large amount of negative feedback which you think is unfair and you suspect that it is due to a small number of posters who have multiple accounts. That is the real issue here. Eliminating the thumbs feature is not the solution; it would unfairly penalize the many posters here who like the feature and do not abuse it. The correct solution is for site admin to determine whether your (and @fmf's) suspicion is correct and, if so, to eliminate duplicate accounts.
I have no doubt that server logs would identify posters who log on just long enough to TD your posts and log off again, sequentially within a short period of time, and never make moves in games; a script could be written to automatically comb the log files and spit out the usernames which fit this pattern.
Given that site admin probably has better things to do, Kewpie's suggestion is a good solution and easy to code: a switch so you and @fmf don't have to see the thumbs, but the feature remains active and anonymous for everyone else.
@a-unique-nickname saidHow about Cromwell? Better?
Wow, can you stop with the Stalin references already.