Downvotes?

[Kidpen he/him]

I've seen people talk about down votes occasionally, but they don't seem possible as far as I can tell. Is this an old feature, or am I just missing something?

[Gancho Libre he/him]

You only get the downvote option if you upvote them first.

[Kidpen he/him]

Then what is the point of the negative ranks?

[Gancho Libre he/him]

I guess if you accidentally upvote someone, you can take it back

I dunno.

[MacThorstenson he/him]

43 minutes ago, Kidpen said:

They don't seem possible as far as I can tell. Is this an old feature, 

You are correct. Back in the olden days, when this forum was younger, (sometime before February) there were down votes. People would use this for getting rid of opposing positions on theories and the such. People who liked shalladin would downvote any who liked Shalladolin. It got to be a mess, and the mods removed the feature.

[Weltall]

Yah, downvotes used to be a feature of the boards and the negative reputation ranks exist as a holdover from that time. The feature was recently removed so we will never again see Hoed, Lamespren or the dreaded Zucchini.

[The Forgetful Archivist he/him]

Not to mention Rotting Chasmfiend Carcass

[Tesh Any pronouns]

There still are a couple of those people on here.

[Chiri-Chiri she/her]

It has its charm to be Rotting Chasmfiend Carcass, sounds cool, a bit smelly but cool!!
I can't understand the fight between Kalolin Shadolin or whatever....  The greatness of Brandond Sanderson's books is its epicness, not their romantic relationships.
(I'm trying to get "Rotting Chasmfiend Carcass")

Edited April 12, 2018 by Chiri-Chiri

[Mestiv he/him]

44 minutes ago, Chiri-Chiri said:

(I'm trying to get "Rotting Chasmfiend Carcass")

You'd need like -9000 negative rep IIRC.

[Chiri-Chiri she/her]

11 minutes ago, Mestiv said:

You'd need like -9000 negative rep IIRC.

 

Bright side, I won't lure vultures 

[thegatorgirl00 she/her]

4 hours ago, Chiri-Chiri said:

I'm trying to get "Rotting Chasmfiend Carcass")

 

4 hours ago, Mestiv said:

You'd need like -9000 negative rep IIRC.

I think you'd probably get banned long before reaching that point. 

[Voidus]

6 hours ago, Mestiv said:

You'd need like -9000 negative rep IIRC.

Pretty sure Rubix just set it to negative whatever I was at the time, not sure if it's still anywhere back end. I do still have a screencap though

[Kaymyth she/her]

55 minutes ago, Voidus said:

Pretty sure Rubix just set it to negative whatever I was at the time, not sure if it's still anywhere back end. I do still have a screencap though

Yep. The only reason we know about that rank at all is because of Rubix trolling you.

[Leyrann]

On 12-4-2018 at 5:53 PM, Voidus said:

Pretty sure Rubix just set it to negative whatever I was at the time, not sure if it's still anywhere back end. I do still have a screencap though

I'm mostly curious why you - now bearing God Beyond - had a negative rank.

[Voidus]

18 hours ago, Leyrann said:

I'm mostly curious why you - now bearing God Beyond - had a negative rank.

I may have expressed my curiousity and Rubix may have responded by inverting my rep so I was at -9000 instead of 9000

[little wilson she/her]

On 4/16/2018 at 10:40 PM, Voidus said:

I may have expressed my curiousity and Rubix may have responded by inverting my rep so I was at -9000 instead of 9000

I'm pretty sure I watched him do that. I believe it was around that same time he made someone The Dragon Reborn, and I think I might have a screenshot of that one lying around somewhere. Troll!Rubix has much fun on the backend with rep when he's feeling like it.

[king of nowhere]

On 12/4/2018 at 0:32 AM, MacThorstenson said:

You are correct. Back in the olden days, when this forum was younger, (sometime before February) there were down votes. People would use this for getting rid of opposing positions on theories and the such. People who liked shalladin would downvote any who liked Shalladolin. It got to be a mess, and the mods removed the feature.

I have never seen anyone do that. I've only seen downvotes used for rude, offensive posts. If some people started to use it as an impromptu flame war, I can see why they were suppressed.

[Voidus]

3 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

I have never seen anyone do that. I've only seen downvotes used for rude, offensive posts. If some people started to use it as an impromptu flame war, I can see why they were suppressed.

It was a minority of people doing it but unfortunately even if it's just a minority it can affect a lot of other people.

[Guest]

I hope it never becomes one.  Seems too easily abused.  Like if a person gets downvoted enough, their post gets hidden.  I have seen forums do that and it always just leads to trolling behaviour.

[CrazyRioter she/her]

Yeah people being rude with downvotes is why they got removed.