I would love a "thumbs down" button for posts.

me too. That's what Reddit is for.

Yeah I wouldn't want a thumbs down button either. If someone is going to disagree I would much rather they give their opinion as to why. You never know, I might learn something new, or at least see another side of the argument I hadn't considered before. I was glad that FB decided against the Dislike button.

I can only imagine the mayhem a dislike button would cause.

Wouldn't that take away a heck of a lot of the discussions? Liking a post is just saying "Yup, me too" kind of thing, simple and self explanatory, but to disagree takes a reason.

I would like some sort of compassion button. When someone comes on and tells us about some horribly painful situation going on in their life, I just don't feel right clicking the thumbs up button, but I would like to be able to have a button that shows you heard them and that you get it. I know I can just post that, but sometimes, I can't make my brain come up with anything that sounds like the emotion I am trying to convey. Something like a hug button, you know?

This.

I have such a hard time typing what I feel sometimes. I always feel like it comes out wrong, or am afraid that it will be read as cheesy or insincere.

But I also can't "like" some situations.

As far as a dislike button. We don't need one. In many threads, you'll often see each post has several likes. Then someone posts one of those posts. No likes.

Silence speaks loud and clear.

That genuinely made me laugh out loud. 


Good point. Magical unicorn Refupea admins can only survive on a rainbows-and-unicorns island so absolutely no negativity allowed 


But mostly I agree with this, so no dislike button.

Although it is theoretically possible, it wouldn't work on mobile, which would no doubt cause a riot when people couldn't dislike a post because they happened to be on their phone at the time.  In other words even if I wanted to put it on it's more hassle than it's worth. 

If you're feeling lazy I'm pretty sure just posting this would get the message across: 

The drama on You Tube over the dislike button. Kristina Werner once got her panties in a wad over a thumbs down. I just kept thinking, "Girl, you should be above this at this point in your YT career.".

That comes across as a little too cheery for those really solemn occasions like a death or suicide or truly awful situations. This.

I like the "compassion button" idea but I have to disagree with Trollie on the dislike button. I don't think it would be a positive addition to our little world. We at NSBR have no trouble disagreeing with each other, but at least we must now take the time to explain why. If you can quickly click the "like" button that sends a little bit of sunshine into someone's day; if you click the "dislike" button that just does the opposite for no purpose.

For example: I like to write reviews on Amazon; I take the time to give an honest review because so many of the reviews on there are clearly bought and paid for. And yet some asshat will make a point to click the "not helpful" button. WTF, why is that even there? It's lazy, hostile, and it accomplishes nothing except to make me feel annoyed and send out a mental "up yours" to this anonymous person.

I would love a compassion button.

I can see Trollie's point about a dislike, I tend to ignore the over the top snarky, uncalled for responses in a post, because I don't want to give the poster the acknowledgement they seem to want. But I have wanted to dislike that specific post before. The acknowledgement that what they said was crappy and uncalled for, without adding fuel to their already icky fire.

I wouldn't like a dislike button either. 

I do enjoy the like button.  I occasionally "like" two opposing sides of a thread.  Sometimes I "like" a post I don't agree with because I think they made a good point, even though I don't feel the same way.  But I have a law degree, so used to looking at both sides!