Hi everyone and @ our able admin,
I am suggesting that the Negative Karma Button be Scrapped for every user aside from the admin, the president and forum moderators.
Why am I suggesting this? 1. Users are likely to abuse this button for no other but selfish reasons.
2. We already have the "Report" button on every post/comment which can be used in place of a negative Karma.
My thought 💭 Explaining further, my reasons why I think we don't need the Negative Karma Button is,
- Concerning abuse, users can selfishly use this button to attack other forum users for no just cause, and worst of it all, the user attacked won't even know who attacked him or her, and this encourages the attacker to keep doing it.
- Concerning the report button, we already have a report button, which users can use in place of giving user a Negative Karma, I feel it's better for users to report a bad post/comment to the mods or who ever such reports go to, let the persons in this position take necessary actions deemed fit for that post, for post/comment truly deserving a negative Karma, the admin or mod can give the required number of negative karma to such post/comment depending on the gravity or how bad the post/comment is, or can just delete such post/comment, or can do both (i.e, give the user negative Karma, and as well delete the post).
So, in the nutshell, only positive Karma Button and the report button should be made available to users, that is, users have three actions they can perform on another user's post/comment.
- Read a post/comment, find it interesting and give a "positive Karma"
- Read a post/comment, find it not so interesting or neutral, ignore and move on to the next post/comment
- Read a post/comment, find it totally uninteresting, scam like, or totally gabbage, "Report" that post/comment to the admin/moderators to take appropriate action on it.
Benefits1. This, I believe will encourage users to use the positive Karma Button more often, for the growth of users on this forum, and the growth of the forum in general, for when people out there see that earning positive Karma for making good posts here is not so hard, they will be encouraged to join the forum.
2. This will completely eradicate abuse of the Negative Karma Button for selfish/personal reasons.
3. This will create a more positive environment and mindset for every user of this forum, like I said before, users will be happy to use the positive Karma Button more often, knowing that never again will they get an unjust or undeserving negative Karma from unknown users.
This is my honest suggestion, and I hope you guys find it well detailed enough.