11-03-2021, 06:32 AM
This seems to be a bit of an unpopular opinion, but here we go.
The reputation system is not used to convey one's agreement with the contents of a post. It is used to reward or punish the people making those posts. When the majority of the people participating in a thread are part of a (hypothetical, so don't bitch at me about what's going on that caused this) angry mob, there is no agreeing or disagreeing with a person's stance. There is only punishing or rewarding them as much as you, as the majority, can. As it just so happens, the hypothetical angry mob always seems to have a high number of likes while the targets have a high number of dislikes.
The stances don't change. You only need to like one post to show your agreement. These dogpile threads are a circle jerk of reputation where people come up with the worst possible way to put everything so that those who are unfamiliar with the situation will naturally go along with the majority, regardless of evidence or context. The targets of these threads are then left to handle an entire angry mob on their own, with the mob growing due to the circle jerk so that they can jump in on the reputation wagon.
Many of you who have commented in disagreement with the decision to disable rep are not upset that you have lost a form of communication. You are upset that you've lost a major part of what makes these dogpile threads so venomous. Some of you need to get off of your "our voices matter and we need to keep the forums clean" high horse when your entire reason for defending the reputation system is the fact that you want to devalue someone else's words and get some dopamine from those +1s.
The reputation system is not used to convey one's agreement with the contents of a post. It is used to reward or punish the people making those posts. When the majority of the people participating in a thread are part of a (hypothetical, so don't bitch at me about what's going on that caused this) angry mob, there is no agreeing or disagreeing with a person's stance. There is only punishing or rewarding them as much as you, as the majority, can. As it just so happens, the hypothetical angry mob always seems to have a high number of likes while the targets have a high number of dislikes.
The stances don't change. You only need to like one post to show your agreement. These dogpile threads are a circle jerk of reputation where people come up with the worst possible way to put everything so that those who are unfamiliar with the situation will naturally go along with the majority, regardless of evidence or context. The targets of these threads are then left to handle an entire angry mob on their own, with the mob growing due to the circle jerk so that they can jump in on the reputation wagon.
Many of you who have commented in disagreement with the decision to disable rep are not upset that you have lost a form of communication. You are upset that you've lost a major part of what makes these dogpile threads so venomous. Some of you need to get off of your "our voices matter and we need to keep the forums clean" high horse when your entire reason for defending the reputation system is the fact that you want to devalue someone else's words and get some dopamine from those +1s.
