Guild Wars 2

Since we already have the [+1] function in place and working, I purpose that adding a [-1] function would further improve our forum experience. Having a post grayed out when it has a large amount of [-1], and making a thread with exceedingly high amount of [-1] not go to the top when there’s a new post added to it.

So that anyone who disagrees with the majority would not be heard, at all? Mounts for example are a ridiculous idea that keeps getting resuggested over and over again. Sure, their support at the moment is very low, but during the first 50 or so mount threads, there were actually quite a bit of people supporting the idea.

That is, people who had no sense of the lore or even the instance system… or basically how the game is designed. Those people did nothing but went to the topic to write +1 and /signed. If there was a downvoting system, every single one of those people would probably just downvote opposition arguments instead of coming up with well thought counters.

Also, do note that there is a “report” flag under every post. If there is a message that actually needs to be “grayed out” for a good reason (such as breaking the forum code of conduct) you can just use this. Those messages usually disappear within 15 minutes of reporting, even at the odd hours of the day. (Yes, there is a good and active moderator crew on the forums.)

How about add -1 but also add sorting to threads. Most viewed, newest, most -1/+1, most replies, etc.

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