Actually, I wasn't banned for disliking posts.
I wasn't saying that you were banned because you aren't allowed to dislike posts and you did. I am saying your trigger-happiness with dislikes is the biggest reason as to why you have friction with so many people, which is likely what leads to the ban. Bans happen when a group of people get together and complain about the unpleasantness of a user, or if that user does something illegal like damage the website or do NSFW\inappropriate stuff like posting pornography. You are clearly not doing the last two things at all, so it must be the first, unpleasantness, that leads to the ban. The mods aren't shilling for Brotzu or any other tech in particular. If they shilled for anything, it would be S5 or some product that is actually out and that they make money on. They don't just ban people for no reason. In fact, most people who get banned have a very high dislike to message ratio - this means that users were actively letting them know, "Hey, we don't like this behavior" but the person continued.
We have a different perspective. And you clearly, 100% correctly have realized that.
Agreed.
Whenever I dislike a post, it's either me genuinely disliking it or disagreeing with its content.
Yes I totally understand that. What I am suggesting to you is that
that's not how everyone else uses those buttons. By and large, the likes and dislikes that a user receives represents their contributions to the board. Look around if you don't believe me. Those with a high number of likes are people who usually give new information, present expertise in a field, or just make the board more enjoyable with jokes or memes. All of these add to the quality of the discussion. Dislikes are given to people who post things that bring down the
quality of the board. Name calling, trolling, insults, and the like.
When you are discussing cutting edge technology, of course you will genuinely disagree with people. That's because we are speculating.
We don't know the answer. Everyone will naturally disagree with everyone else about a variety of topics because it is the frontier of our knowledge.
If "dislike" means "I disagree with this post," we would see many productive posters with high dislikes, but we do not. There is a reason that the likes and dislikes are displayed PERMANENTLY on your profile. They show your quality as a poster, not how much each person agrees with everyone else - that's a useless metric in a discussion about stuff we don't know the answer to.
If someone tries their best to analyze a problem and present new information, regardless of whether you agree with their contribution, you have to admit - they are not bad posters. They are trying. They are adding to the discussion.
On the other hand, when someone just picks fights, calls names, trolls people, and wastes everyone's time, I think it's clear that those people are damaging the quality of this place.
The two types of people mentioned above are clearly not the same. When you hand out dislikes to both types - both when you disagree with a well crafted opinion, and when you dislike a rude poster - you are equating the two. That doesn't seem correct to me. And that is why I believe that you are misusing the dislike button.
What you or anybody else think about my perspective mean really nothing to me.
Fair enough. I'm just giving you feedback. I can't make you pay attention to it. And by the way, this isn't me attacking you personally, which leads me to my next point.
I would have given you some merit if the only thing I did was disliking comments, but I have liked lots of comments, it's just that it ain't yours.
You DO in fact like lots of comments. I fully acknowledge that. In fact, other than your penchant for disliking people, you're not a half bad poster. And for the record, you have liked my comments in the past, and I have liked some of yours as well.
Again, the main point I am trying to convey is that the way you use the dislike button is not how the majority of people use it, it is not how the most respected posters on this board use it, and it is likely not how the system was meant to be used.
To give an extreme example, Noisette has ONE dislike, by Nadia1972. I think we all know that Noisette is an excellent poster and always contributes a lot of useful information. Noisette always digs up information for us and is a very kind poster; he's done nothing wrong. The only reason Nadia1972 punished Noisette with a dislike was that she obviously did not believe in whatever technology he had posted about. That seems pretty unfair. But we also see that Nadia 1972 goes around disliking every other poster and disagrees with them regardless of their logic, or sources, or really anything. She's made up her mind, won't change it, and is willing to fight everyone. That is extremely annoying behavior and it's not surprising to me that she is the only person who has disliked Noisette. I don't think people should behave like that, and it appears that the mods agree. And I don't think you are that kind of person, but the way you use dislikes can be similar. So I'm just showing you another example of abuse of the dislike button.
I'm not upset or asking for an apology or anything man. I'm just telling you how it is. Take it or leave it.
