Disabling the Option to Down-Vote Reviews

Aggra-Dearheart said:


Jeeesus Christ. I was deliberately being reserved (I even went back and edited parts out), and you still practically broke into tears. Just...really, you need to fucking buck up. Text on an anime site about other text on an anime site should not wreck your shit this badly. You might have a genuine emotional problem, and I mean that in earnest, not as an insult.

But yes, I 'heard', I 'listened'. You say I didn't because I didn't fall in line and agree with you.
Upvotes-over-time would still be useless because it still provides no good context. If every page and review recieved the same amount of traffic/views, at least a meaningful estimation could be made. As traffic and views naturally vary wildly, one can not be made. 4 upvotes over the past year. Cool. Did 4, 400, or 4000 people read it? It still tells nothing.

Showing total views by unique users alongside the number of upvotes would provide the missing context. Pretty sure I didn't overlook you saying that. Still though, it's a solution to a problem that you only assume exists without good reason, and it would still be fuck-with-able in the ways I just described.

There's no reason to assume it's abused in the first place. You have decided what everyone's motivations are when you have no way of knowing. You have decided that everyone is lying because their behavior does not conform to your expectations. You want to think it's abused. Based on the feedback you've gotten, you've decided that everyone must be a horde of monsters out to get everyone else, because of course, the reason for their feedback couldn't possibly lie with you. (Dear Ebert and Roeper: My movies are very good. Your articles do not say so, so they are clearly malicious and not your actual opinions. Refrain. Sincerely, Michael Bay) You're trying to needlessly and ineffectually revamp the whole thing instead of even considering the possibility that maybe your writing isn't as good as you'd like to think.

You still want upvotes? There's just as much reason to assume that people upvote bad reviews. If your imaginary horde of omg~trollvoters! can't downvote good reviews, they'll upvote bad reviews instead. What are you going to do when I mash out "DURARARA SUK A DIK" and it stays for years because it has 40 upvotes and has therefor been decided by the community to be useful and worthwhile?
And what's to say these imaginary meanies wouldn't refrain from upvoting based on...e-popularity or whatever?

One user's psychological inability to handle anything but praise and head-pats (and thus reality / other sapient beings / human existence) does not mean anything is going to be changed. It's not going to. And really, my only motivation here is something to do, not pursuing a point I genuinely care about, so it's ok if saying anything more to me would overwhelm you again. You don't need to.

This part, though:

is just precious. Feel free to explain that to me out-of-thread, because I don't do these here. If I did, how would I have an account that's lasted for four years? You did not see even a single instance of these things from me.

E: lmaoijustseriouslytypedoutthismuchaboutthisbullshit?myliiife