Poll: Should all reactions generate a positive score?

[TOP]

@TOP Keep up the good work... OMTR !

I know...right?

 

[TOP]

Operation Make Them Rage ?

That's it... it works every....single.... time....without fail....

 

[Grim Reaper]

Being the person who gives the most reactions isn’t a bad thing it means you’re actually engaged with the forum instead of sleepwalking through it.

Reactions are the bloodstream of a discussion board. Thumbs up? Encourages good posts. Laughing? Highlights the absurdity. Downvotes? Filters out the nonsense.

Someone who reacts a lot is doing more for the forum than the people who just lurk, pout, and complain about muh downvotes. At least I’m participating instead of treating the place like a retirement home bulletin board.

If anything, the person giving the most reactions is keeping the forum alive. The people whining about it are just proving they don’t understand how engagement works, or they’re mad that the feedback they’re getting isn’t the validation they wanted.

If you can’t handle a reaction button, maybe the internet is too advanced for you.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Dammo didn’t make this poll because he cares about reactions. He made it because somewhere in the dark lair beneath JPP HQ, a council of loud‑mouth reaction‑crybabies gathered around him like goblins screeching, Daaaammmmoooo, the downvotes hurt our feeeeelings!

So Dammo, in full cartoon‑villain fashion, slammed his fist on the keyboard and declared, FINE! I SHALL CREATE… A POLL! A POLL NO ONE ASKED FOR! A POLL WHOSE RESULTS I SHALL IGNORE COMPLETELY!

Then he cackled, cape fluttering, as he added the most unhinged third option imaginable, Three bags of walnuts and leftover chips with aged brown guacamole.

Because nothing says I don’t care about this poll like adding an option that sounds like it crawled out of a radioactive pantry and demanded voting rights.

Meanwhile the complainers are huddled around it like cartoon minions, Master Dammo, will this fix the downvotes?’And Dammo just spins in his villain chair, stroking a cat made of tortilla chips, whispering..No… but it will keep you busy.

He's been dancing the idea for awhile so the voices in the dark lair must be increasingly louder.

 

[Lionfish]

It’s not the good morning that’s annoying, it’s the Olympic‑level attention‑grabbing wrapped around it.

Some of these posts aren’t greetings, they’re distress flares. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!!! relax, nobody forgot you existed overnight.

It’s not anger. It’s just watching someone turn two harmless words into a daily please clap ritual and thinking, wow, that’s a lot of neediness before coffee.

Anybody forcing you to post on this forum?
BTW, Good morning.

 

[Lionfish]

Being the person who gives the most reactions isn’t a bad thing it means you’re actually engaged with the forum instead of sleepwalking through it.

It usually means you are an obsessed cockwomble.

Reactions are the bloodstream of a discussion board.

Many boards have no reaction options. They function just fine.

Thumbs up? Encourages good posts.

Supports your friends.

Laughing? Highlights the absurdity.

Downvotes? Filters out the nonsense.

Over a hundred in an hour exhibits mental illness.

Someone who reacts a lot is doing more for the forum than the people who just lurk, pout, and complain about muh downvotes. At least I’m participating instead of treating the place like a retirement home bulletin board.

You contribute often?

If anything, the person giving the most reactions is keeping the forum alive.

This forum will survive just fine without you.

The people whining about it are just proving they don’t understand how engagement works, or they’re mad that the feedback they’re getting isn’t the validation they wanted.

If you can’t handle a reaction button, maybe the internet is too advanced for you.

The only people whining are you lefties.

 

[IBDaMann]

Universal Unavailable health care and eternal waiting lists, raise minimum wage bleed companies out of business, protect and enhance bankrupt all possible funding sources of Medicare and Social security, invest in forced public education indoctrination of our children, public infrastructure graft, and scientific research science denial, cultivate international alliances give all US wealth away to the rest of the world while incarcerating all American Caucasian conservatives through lawfare.

FTFY.

 

[Damocles]

Being the person who gives the most reactions isn’t a bad thing it means you’re actually engaged with the forum instead of sleepwalking through it.

Reactions are the bloodstream of a discussion board. Thumbs up? Encourages good posts. Laughing? Highlights the absurdity. Downvotes? Filters out the nonsense.

Someone who reacts a lot is doing more for the forum than the people who just lurk, pout, and complain about muh downvotes. At least I’m participating instead of treating the place like a retirement home bulletin board.

If anything, the person giving the most reactions is keeping the forum alive. The people whining about it are just proving they don’t understand how engagement works, or they’re mad that the feedback they’re getting isn’t the validation they wanted.

If you can’t handle a reaction button, maybe the internet is too advanced for you.

Nobody is whining about getting reactions, they are pointing out that going back to 3 year old posts to give reactions to fill the notification bell with a count that shoves every other notification away is an attempt to control the user experience for another user. So I am giving them control of whether or not they get notified every time another user reacts.

They want most reaction notifications, they don't want their notification count full of just that. They can still see those reactions on their reactions page they still count for their "score"...

Reactions page: https://www.justplainpolitics.com/account/reactions

Those folks get to continue reacting, building that "neg rep" for their favorite enemy, and the user gets to use the board the way they want to. Adding features for users that give them more control over their experience is a good thing.

 

[IBDaMann]

Aren't there a lot of vampires there?

Most of them moved to Florida once they discovered SPF100 lotion.

 

[Damocles]

I will also say, it has been fun creating this... I haven't had to stretch this kind of coding muscle for ages, and I had to learn some new things as Xenforo is very different from vBulletin.

This has been an awesome learning experience. And I will probably finish the rest of this mod tomorrow. If not I will be installing what I have so folks can start ignoring some user reactions while I continue to figure it out.

 

[Grim Reaper]

Congrats, everyone, you can now hide reactions from specific people. You can’t stop them, you can’t prevent them, you can’t escape them…but you can pretend they aren’t happening.

Cool update, Dammo.

All that whining. All that coding. All that inbox drama.

Thanks for the laughs!