I am certainly not the first person to make a post about the influx of newcomers. I love seeing new people come to the forums, it’s great to know the community is still active apart from the twenty people that I know play the game. Though I am sure everyone has seen a substantial drop in post and comment quality, I am here to propose an experiment that may or may not yield a solution.
If we remove the liking system, or add a dislike feature, there will be less reason to create shit and spam. I propose we do this for two weeks just to see if there is any actual change in the quality when there isn’t an arbitrary number that people want to strive for.
I am not sure how possible this is, though I think it would be interesting to try it out. (and I really do not want this to devolve into r/unturned)
Edit: Also the “How Could It Hurt?” is a genuine question, I want to know if this will cause any issues that aren’t worth the potential quality control.
The problem with the dislike feature is that it can potentially turn the Forum in a giant circle jerk.
Even if that doesn’t happen, posters would face the issue of not knowing what people might necessarily dislike about a post.
If you dislike a post or disagree with it’s execution, leave a comment on how you would like to change it, this is how good quality discussions get started.
We all know how that worked with webtoon. Some random guy downvotes your comment so they can get the top comment, and your actually decent comment never sees the light of day again.
Maybe instead of making the change forum wide for 2 weeks, maybe just have the lounge have no like/dislike button. That way if someone make a genuinely good post in the other categories, they can still receive likes.