Expression is something I was thinking about. In real life if someone does something I dislike I probably won’t verbalize it unless it’s particularly unsettling, but I can’t help myself from showing facial expressions in the moment. Especially if I’m with friends or people that I value their opinion, I want them to know how I feel about something but don’t care as much about what whoever offended me thinks of me. Scrunching my nose and furling my lip as if to say, you’ve got to be kidding me. Looking at them bug-eyed with a sense of bewilderment. I look at a dislike button a bit like those types of nonverbal facial expressions. Many blessings and much love
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A negative review will gain far more aggressive responses than you anticipate. Cheers Everyone !!!
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Evil people paths and the whole world Craig. Whatama is even the point? Disagree with the idea of members punishing each other. Strongly disagree fwiw. I appreciate the conversation as we try to protect OG. I was gone for about a year and its changed. I guess the knuckleheads can’t be kept out.
Grow on.
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When this happens i have in the past (but not always) DMed the member and suggested an alternative approach to whatever i disapproved of.
So they don’t feel like they’re being “scolded” publicly. I’ve learned people tolerate and learn from criticism if it’s done one-to-one. And so they won’t feel shamed in the open forum.
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Absolutely positively RIGHT! Do not go down the Reditt trash hole. That’s not what OG needs. I only try to use Reditt to let others know where to get the pine dream they’re looking for, but it also comes with hate and being flamed posting in other subs. It’s not friendly or inviting, it’s like walking the ghetto streets.
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Wouldn’t a dislike button avoid the hate speech and flame fest? That’s exactly why it works, because it avoids the unnecessary commentary that can on occasion turn into flaming and hate speech.
Currently we’re suggested to voice those disapprovals with our words which is where I feel those things you mention wanting to avoid are created from. Many blessings and much love
I’m not here to scold or teach anyone though, I’m here to enjoy talking about generics, garden techniques and the like. That’s literally the last thing I want to do with my day is be the enlightened one for some disgruntled online persona. A dislike button is just as much a time saver as the like button.
I can’t imagine the forum where instead of likes everyone had to verbalize it. There just isn’t enough time compared to the amount of content created. Why is that the only option to dislike something, by verbalizing it, is what I don’t understand. Many blessings and much love
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Forget all the shaming and pip subtraction, I’d like a 
button as we have a 
button.
What if I just want yes/no question in a post and just go off the thumbs, rather than tons of posts. Sure could do a poll too already, but we have the ability…
Or throwing an idea out and that’s the feedback. It doesn’t have to be about wrong and manners and whatever. It’s just another form of one-click expression…
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No, the original Overgrow 1.0 worked on positive and negative karma points, and I know better as being a controversial figure within the community I had my fans and supporters and detractors about the G13, and negative points or make posts into negative sentiment is ammunition for detractors to pile on and put someone in a deep negative rep standing like a vicious circle. Some people don’t like me or how I write for whatever reason and I’m ok, but down voting every comment I make like I get on Reditt is demoralizing to experience. Even thanking someone for kudo on the work gets down voted. I’m safer in my own sub there where I control it. If those who want to do that, go to Reditt to voice or show disapproval for postings or simply don’t “like” a posting with a 
I usually know who doesn’t “like” a posting in a thread, again don’t expect everyone to do so either.
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Wouldn’t that be a trichotomy?
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I 100% agree with your comments @OriginalDankmaster96 , in a quick quote to sum up all that you said, “Haters going to hate, so why make it easier for them to.” The group just going to dislike all your stuff and cause problems within the community.
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Howdy @OriginalDankmaster96 , thank you for this comment. You’re right.
I don’t think we need a dislike button. I think we need to remove the like button. Seriously. Many blessings and much love
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Or if not removing the like button there should be infinite likes to give. Many blessings and much love
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I still don’t get the like button when you keep running out of likes so fast. Usually when I’m done with likes, I’m ready to get off the app until I get more. Don’t want to seem like I’m dissing anyone by not liking their post after commenting and getting tired of always saying outta likes K+ like the original Overgrow anyway…
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Hate buttons just fuel negative shit. Same reason Facebook don’t use them.
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What about likes then, what if someone has 8 likes and I have only 7? Many blessings and much love
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I’d like to voice an alternative reason for not having a thumbs down / dislike emoji.
I have anxiety, cptsd, and am autistic. I tend to have wordy posts that convey more than one concept or thought.
Someone dropping a thumbs down to “register their disapproval” of a long post on a bad day could have me spiraling out about what in the message they didn’t like. All of it? me as a person? some fact that I misremembered? some opinion I expressed? did I word things in a way that made sense to me but not them when in actuality we agree? there is no chance to find out!
I realize it’s no one else’s responsibility to manage my neuroses, and also a dislike indicator would not be the clear communication that was suggested earlier in the thread.
I also understand the desire to not engage when people are in “take on all comers” mode, however I figure that’s what the flag button is for. “off topic” is a flag reason, and at a certain point, someone trying to argue with people would qualify. Having been a moderator in other communities, I would definitely appreciate people flagging instead of long drawn out arguments, but I can’t speak for OG mods on that.
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I like this comment a lot. Thanks for taking the time to share that @C_in_CT. Many blessings and much love
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