03-17-2013, 04:27 PM
I would say keep both the upvote and downvoting system.
If someone gets enough downvotes it can go one of three ways.
1. They take it to heart and downvote everyone back and/or make a big stink about it.
2. They take it to heart and change themselves for the better, then they usually fall into option 3.
3. Nothing mappens and they go on with their life not caring about upvotes or downvotes.
People in the first option are not the nicest of people anyway, of which no one really wants to deal with that type of person. People in the second option usually bloom into fantastic people (Perfect example is Mighty Jetters from tSR. She turned around so good she even became a mod on that forum and generally loved by the community.) Finally, people in the 3rd option are people like me, Vipershark, and others who are generally just like "it's fun, but not something I need to worry about" type of thing because we know how to properly behave in a community with others and thus it isn't a big deal for us.
If someone gets enough downvotes it can go one of three ways.
1. They take it to heart and downvote everyone back and/or make a big stink about it.
2. They take it to heart and change themselves for the better, then they usually fall into option 3.
3. Nothing mappens and they go on with their life not caring about upvotes or downvotes.
People in the first option are not the nicest of people anyway, of which no one really wants to deal with that type of person. People in the second option usually bloom into fantastic people (Perfect example is Mighty Jetters from tSR. She turned around so good she even became a mod on that forum and generally loved by the community.) Finally, people in the 3rd option are people like me, Vipershark, and others who are generally just like "it's fun, but not something I need to worry about" type of thing because we know how to properly behave in a community with others and thus it isn't a big deal for us.