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Here's a way to combat it: let the posting user select whether the post is likeable, or dislikeable. (But not both) Eg, the status "my dog is awesome" is likea
by scott_karana 11y ago
Here's a way to combat it: let the posting user select whether the post is likeable, or dislikeable. (But not both)
Eg, the status "my dog is awesome" is likeable-only (the default), and "my dog died" could be set to dislikeable-only.
- sytse 11y agoThat makes sense to me.
- lsiunsuex 11y agoDoesn't this kinda defeat the purpose of a dislike button though? I'm only gonna click like if I think the dog is awesome also. And if I didn't care, I wouldn't. And if I don't think the dog is awesome, I'm gonna ignore it. Same for if the dog died. Sure, most of the time it sucks and a dislike would be appropriate, but if the dog was bad with kids, maybe it had it coming. In your scenario, your not adding another metric - your just changing the meaning of the action, in which case no additional information is being gained, your just changing what that action is called to appease peoples feelings.
- scott_karana 11y agoFacebook was never been talking about a traditional downvote button. From the article: > However he went on to say he did not want it to be a mechanism with which people could "down vote" others' posts. > Instead, it will be for times when clicking "like" on "sad" posts felt insensitive.