Dislike feature on the DevForums

[Thundermaker300 (Thunder)]

This has been suggested previously. See the posts on this thread (specifically colbert’s post) on why this isn’t a good idea.

A way to Thumbs down / dislike forum posts

I feel like this kind of a thing can get quickly muddled and abused. As it is, we’ve previously had an issue with the flagging system (and possibly still do) wherein users maliciously abuse the flag system to hide certain posts. In terms of updates, I can see this quickly going south: as it is, feedback on current announcement threads without such a system existing is sometimes not that great. I’m talking about disliking updates without any legitimate reason. Downvotes aren’t needed across the …