avon b7

The efforts to manage 'button abuse' are admirable and I wholeheartedly agree that there was a lot of abuse going.

If people were just mature enough use the buttons correctly it wouldn't be an issue but some, and I think it is only a handful, just think they can hide behind the anonymity of the system and abuse it. The lack of maturity was compounded when the dislike button was removed and those same people just took to hitting 'funny', screwing up the value of the system.

Based on J Snively's posts in this thread I find nothing that justifies personal criticism of him/her. I might not agree with absolutely everything said but everything has been explained (often multiple times), a lot of perspective has been given, a huge amount of patience shown and the bottom line is that they are trying to tackle what was/is a real problem while attempting to let people have their say as openly as possible. After all it's a discussion forum.

I think the only way to manage the problem is by removing anonymity but that may be beyond the possibilities of the forum software, or perhaps overkill, if the people abusing the buttons really are just a handful.