So will Kinja ever get a negative star feature of some sort?

"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven) 01/29/2017 at 14:29 • Filed to: None

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Sometimes, comments on the Front Page aren’t bad, but they add nothing to the discussion at all and consist of shitty speculation, like this one:

StoneCold > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 14:35

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But bad stars are negativity and negativity means unhappiness and unhappiness is less clicks which is less money. It’s why Facebook doesn’t have a thumbs down and actively takes down web tools that track people who unfriend you.

The Ghost of Oppo > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 14:35

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This is why I like reddit

TheHondaBro > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 14:36

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Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > StoneCold 01/29/2017 at 14:39

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Do they really take down web tools just for that?

Here on Kinja I don’t see how that would lead to less money. When the shitty comments are downvoted it helps enhance the experience. When I see a really downvoted comment on Reddit, I’m more tempted to read it.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 14:39

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I remember one time I made a comment complaining about journalists excessively bitching about interiors on entry level compact cars. I said something along the lines of “I’m gonna go crazy if I read another review complain about the lack of soft touch materials in a Nissan Versa.”

Some commented after that.

“You’ll wish it had soft touch materials if you ever roll over though.” Except he was more of an asshole about saying it. I just left him in the greys so he wouldn’t get embarrassed by other commentators.  

True story.

Nerd-Vol > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 14:40

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That’s a scorching hot taek.

jimz > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 14:40

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The most you can do is “dismiss” someone, but only if their comment is a reply to yours (or you’re the article author.)

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > TheHondaBro 01/29/2017 at 14:40

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-1 star

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 01/29/2017 at 14:43

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Now that the grays aren’t such a huge deal, any cruddy commenter who got followed by the Gawker blogs has a voice. Which includes me, but I rarely comment unless I have something to say that can make the discussion improve.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > jimz 01/29/2017 at 14:45

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True. But I believe the dismiss feature exists to really eliminate the worst comments. Not comments that simply happen to be crappy.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > jimz 01/29/2017 at 14:45

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True. But I believe the dismiss feature exists to really eliminate the worst comments. Not comments that simply happen to be crappy.

HammerheadFistpunch > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 14:45

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It’s a well known fact that companies live and die by the money they spend in the themed model name department.

Also negatives stars are called “smartass comments”

Mercedes Streeter > The Ghost of Oppo 01/29/2017 at 14:47

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Kinja’s “recommendations” are also precisely why Reddit’s system sucks too lol. The upvote/downvote system encourages enforcing the echo chamber.

I didn’t last long at r/Cars at all before I just said “fudge it” and went somewhere else. For “car enthusiasts”, they’re just as fake as FP commenters are. lol

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > HammerheadFistpunch 01/29/2017 at 14:47

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I’d do it for free man.

Urambo Tauro > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 01/29/2017 at 14:47

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Yeah, the whole “pending approval” thing can be really handy. (But sometimes it can take a lot of restraint to avoid responding to a deservedly grey reply.)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > HammerheadFistpunch 01/29/2017 at 14:48

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Or just reply and suggest to them that they are full of crap.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 14:49

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On Gizmodo it would devolve into a war of Trump haters vs. people sick and tired of seeing anti-trump posts on articles having nothing to do with politics. It would be brutal.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 14:49

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Yes. And not to dismiss replies that happen to disagree with you.

Better is to post a reply with a thoughtful rationale as to why the original comment was misinformed or absurd.

HammerheadFistpunch > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/29/2017 at 14:50

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I prefer comedy, less likely for flames of rage or more funny if/when it does

TheHondaBro > Mercedes Streeter 01/29/2017 at 14:50

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Moral of the story: people are dicksacks.

TheHondaBro > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 01/29/2017 at 14:50

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You’re a mean person.

The Ghost of Oppo > Mercedes Streeter 01/29/2017 at 14:53

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I stay away from the big subreddits, but I think a private Oppo sub would do well.

Urambo Tauro > The Ghost of Oppo 01/29/2017 at 14:55

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(I don’t spend a lot of time on Reddit, so correct me if I’m wrong, but) it looks like their points system doesn’t actually show positive vs negative stats the way that YouTube does. I prefer being able to see how many “dislikes” are countering the “likes”.

The Ghost of Oppo > Urambo Tauro 01/29/2017 at 15:00

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Yeah it doesn’t show total up and down votes, it just shows what the current score is.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 01/29/2017 at 15:04

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“Show more replies”

You click that button, you’ll never make it to the bottom on scrolling alone.

Urambo Tauro > The Ghost of Oppo 01/29/2017 at 15:07

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That’s a shame. Were Kinja to adopt a “negative star”, I wouldn’t want to take away someone’s upvote with my own opinion. Especially on subjective matters like whether a car is ugly or not.

My bird IS the word > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 15:17

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I comment all the time because I have nothing better to do.

(Cries)

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > My bird IS the word 01/29/2017 at 15:21

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LAZY, LIBERAL, ART HISTORY MAJOR SCUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET A JOB!!!!!!!

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > My bird IS the word 01/29/2017 at 15:21

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LAZY, LIBERAL, ART HISTORY MAJOR SCUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET A JOB!!!!!!!

My bird IS the word > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 15:40

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The sad thing is I’m at work right now. The charmed life of a college kid.

Tazio, Count Fouroff > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 16:36

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@Hammerhead Fistpunch

“I prefer comedy, less likely for flames of rage or more funny if/when it does”

True that.

It’s a demontrated fact that the people who could most benefit from a sense of humor, also are always the people with the least sense of humor lol

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 16:57

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The worst comments are the ones whining about politics on Jalopnik/Gizmodo/FA.

Instead of just, ya know, not reading the article , you gave them your click and then wasted everyone’s time by whining about it.

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/29/2017 at 16:59

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And then you do get to the bottom and it says “show more replies” a second time.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Mercedes Streeter 01/29/2017 at 18:29

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I remember some subreddits require that downvoting only be used legitimately and not just all willy nilly, a rule that resembles the reason we use ‘dismiss’ on Kinja.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/30/2017 at 08:24

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I hope not. I like it better where if you say something dumb you either suffer in silence or get called on to defend your position.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 01/30/2017 at 13:22

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People who return to defend their position = total idiots, slight chance it is a troll

People who don’t return = definitely trolls

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 01/30/2017 at 13:27

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OK, defend their position/admit defeat. Whatev. Either way, a call-out comment is better than hiding behind a downvote.