Minuses Be Gone!

...because the world is better with a little less negativity.

Starting now, Unity Forums and later Dolphin Forums will no longer have "minus" button. Instead, there's only a "like" button (sounds familiar? ;) ) and "bury" link. The "bury" link hides the post for the viewer, but doesn't affect the post's total score. So, the idea is: don't like it? - skip it. Report link is still there of course, but it won't affect the total score either.

Oh, and the same is planned for every other piece of content around here. Like it or not, you'd have to either like it, or skip it.

Why?

Many social networking gorillas figured it out some time ago... Negative votes are useless - they either feed trolls or discourage good posters. They do no good. Facebook doesn't have "dislike", Digg doesn't have "undigg", and most of the commenting system now dropped minuses for good.

We clearly realised how evil minuses are when we found some "contestants" of our Birthday Competition voting-down their rivals. Sheer disgrace.

And...

we nulled all "minuses" for Unity Forums. Something similar will soon happen with comments, and posts.