I just gave you the skunk emoji. 
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i voted so we could keep a balance. 2 ppl voted pro/anti, making it 50/50, so i voted don’t give a f**k, so now it’s 33/33/33 %.
Regarding the topic, I always heard “If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all.”
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I thought the skunk emoji was already like farting on a post.
I voted yes because muh freedoms and i like being public enemy i just collect thar shit.
Also thumbs up means something different in other parts of the world lol
But on a very serious note, if you just govern by pure democracy well it wont work alone…you need a constitution to limit the powers.
The elders will know. Quadzilla!
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Thumbs down on kicking a dead horse without steel-toed boots. Use a stick and beat that horse, while saving your toes…
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‘Abusing’ a conceptual ‘dislike system’.
Hell no. It is not.
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We need a popcorn emoji because this topic is pure gold.
Oh wait…
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Wait, what genius came up with this idea?
Every single social media have started or completely downplayed dislike buttons.
Why are we even discussing this?
I thought that the idea of OG is based upon positivity and respect?
Why support such a passive/aggressive approach to communication and how can’t you see that this is definitely something that will increase bullying on the platform?
Overgrow isn’t just for the people who spend a lot of time here and we are pretty good to take care of the combatative nutcases already 
Pz 
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I did notice that youtube started taking away its dislike button after they had some creator special video get a shitload of dislikes. Of course they say it is to stop brigading.
If you don’t like the hypothetical it’s ok. The idea was that @moderators are the only ones with actual power to control abuse through restriction of privileges. Many blessings and much love
Anything that’s not a dopamine hit is bad for the bottom line when the bottom line is tied to user interaction. It was surely a business decision because of money, it’s tied to interaction. How to create a druglike experience.
I think there is value to viewers being able to quickly identify what the user base feels about particular things, without having to read or scroll through all the comments or waste their time with a bad video experience. It may be years later, months later, or the day after. It’s still helpful.
Imagine Google reviews if they only allowed positive reviews, oh yeah, that’s Yelp. Yikes!
Many blessings and much love
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Youtube is not a good comparison. It is primarily a visual experience. Most people avoid the comments/discussion.
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Can’t we discuss 300+ comments on how to we can be more constructive and positive towards each other? ‘dreaming about hippy utopia’
Pz
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Oh man I’m all up in the comments reading. Guess I’m not most people. And I didn’t bring YouTube up, but you and another member mentioned it as it relates to the dislike button and I think it’s for a similar reason as here to keep interactions and the experience one big dopamine hit.
Speaking of the druglike experience social media is starting to morph into, I realized something yesterday. You see, I didn’t start this thread at all. It was started by @LemonadeJoe by removing a comment of mine out of another thread and merged it here as it’s own thread. I say this because I was wondering why I got so involved and invested in the topic, one that I didn’t even start. It’s honestly not that important to me, and yes while I’d prefer a dislike button I probably wouldn’t even use it often. Only when some members are really crossing a line. And I certainly wouldn’t abuse it. Point being, my activity on this topic was directly related to all of the notifications I kept receiving when logged into the forums here. I was unaware at the time when the moderators moved my comment to start a new topic with it that it would automatically be set to “watching” and that I would get literally every notification of each post and comment.
Once I set the topic to something other than “watching” and all the notifications stopped, I was able to better focus on other areas of the forum which I prefer much more.
I think we would be better off without the likes, the pips, all of that. But if we’re going to have them, like everything in life it needs relevance to exist. Hot doesn’t exist without cold. Light without darkness. Likes without dislikes. Many blessings and much love
Many blessings and much love
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I would prefer to have a dislike button for instances like earlier today in @MadMac’s thread where @TomHill was being rude. Alternately there are many instances where I use the like button for posts and comments where @TomHill shares something I find awesome or helpful or something like that. I don’t hold a grudge and try my best to consider things anew and leave room for grace. I think it would be helpful for instances like the example I provided so we as members can express our displeasure without mucking up a thread. And for what it’s worth, I think it’s ok for Tom to say hey that’s not Tom’s best if he wants but not to badger about it.
Make a new thread if he wants to say whatever he wants I’m cool with but to respect others threads more is all. Many blessings and much love
That’s many blessings and love, thank you 
I think you’re thinking to logical about this. In a social media platform were the goal is to increase positive interactions, having lots of way to show support is a good thing. For example
, sometimes people don’t want to write positive about a pic you post, they might be in a small window of free time at work or what ever.
I don’t really understand your reasoning of having this black and white approach towards positive interactions between human beings. For example when you’re with a friend, do you give him/her as much slack as praise? If you’re at work, would you rather have constructive feedback and praise from a employer, then someone batching you with the same strength they praise you?
I think you start to understand what I’m getting at here and you’re smart enough to understand that this isn’t an environment that reflects the objective truth. This is a forum that is ment to connect humans with a nieche interest, positive connections. As cannabis is such a polarising topic, people seek this place as a safehaven from reality. There is no point in reflecting reality if this is the intention of the forum.
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It’s better that we stand united in the comments and fight for what we believe in, rather then push a dislike button.
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It’s important to be able to discuss things regardless of which side you come down on. I tend to agree with your post personally, but mine is only one opinion. The system that’s in place has been there all the years I have been here and seems to work just fine, IMO. Just today, someone flagged a few of my posts here as I got into a quick conversation about boats and boom, all off-topic
posts gone. So the system does work.
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I’m saying for the moments of times we have clearly bad actors in here, rather than engaging I would prefer a dislike button so newer members or more impressionable members who might not have been around the forums as long can reference those preferences and opinions with community members they find value in, or maybe they relate it with community members they don’t value so they weigh it accordingly.
I’m all about going with the flow and if the majority of the members here want to support the social media druglike experience that’s totally fine. I’ve since taken heed of the advice here and started to flag posts and comments that I find distasteful or otherwise off topic instead of making a verbalized comment about them as I was recommended those two options in favor of a dislike button. Had this thread not been created and notifications set to “watching” without my understanding better I doubt I would have even continued to share my feelings on it. I’ve since changed that setting and have to manually come into this thread for updates so it’s much more chill for me in that regard. It doesn’t feel like an overwhelming urge to reply due to the massive amount of notifications. I respect you, and that means even if we don’t always share the same opinions. Many blessings and much love
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