There are trolls and bad actors that are just spamming downvotes here on the forum. Just look at the Help section or the Clan Recruitment section. So many of the posts are down to zero votes. If a player comes here for help, they have an issue that they want someone to hear them out about. Even if their point is invalid, just having trolls downvote their needs for help creates a toxic environment. In the Clan Recruitment sections, there are people that use either alt accounts or coordinated group acts to manipulate the data by mass downvoting the other post just because someone else made a post. Many have noticed the manipulation because some of the mass downvotings happen when certain clans make forum posts.
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I think this is incredibly pedantic given the complete lack of effect the votes have on anything. More often than not, things with 0 votes *that have been up for a while* are bad opinion posts and they already protect these peoples feeling by not showing the negative values. Would like to see an actual filter for things I WANT to see because if I could never see another clan recruitment or fan fic lore post again, I'd be very happy.
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Изменено (Hi Im Swat): 2/7/2024 2:14:06 PMHi Im Swat
Bungie fan forever. Here since 2008. - старое
The upvotes/downvotes mean [i]nothing[/i] and have no impact on anything. You can't even see the upvotes/downvotes on the app, you only see it through the main Bungie.net website. My advice? Just ignore them. The votes aren't doing any harm anyway. [quote][/quote] I do agree though that Bungie should remove the upvote and downvote feature as it only promotes harmful content and bad behaviour (see the Destiny 2 forum for example). -
Bungie should have never added an upvote / downvote system into the site to begin with. But they felt that they needed to copy all the other sycophantic actions of other more prominent social media sites at the time. It serves no purpose other than causing more division throughout every place it is implemented. If someone agrees or disagrees with a post, they should state their reasoning rather than clicking a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" everywhere. It adds NOTHING to the discussions, and actively thwarts the entire purpose of a forum - to discuss.
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Just noticed a negative comment "The paranoia doesn't help." on this post from someone that has not even tied their forum account to a destiny account. Is it meant to be this easy to enable trolling and to create a toxic environment?
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Almost immediately this post also went down to zero votes. It is almost as if some of these actors have scripts to downvote everything.
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I agree. Time to remove it.