the improvement now is that insead of silent downvotes, i have random user just PM'ing me "sod you" instead :)

no worries - it made me laugh more than anything else

edit - but i kind of wish I knew what thread / post the "sod you" was refering to. trolls- next time put in a small reference.

You actually expect those kinds of people to put in any effort? Cute.

i don't expect it, but a man can dream

Not a great solution I know, but you can restrict PMs to 'friends only', or turn them off altogether.

Well at least you can now give an identity to them and likely they were one of the downvoters.

And it perfectly illustrates how childish and immature they are.

You could seek solace in giving the poor sods an outlet for their inability to be like a normal well balanced person.

Clearly they did not want to engage with you decently in public, no doubt because of their deficiencies.

One could laugh at their lack of self control, if it wasn't so sad.

It takes all types to give variety in this crazy world we live in. All about balance I guess.

Removing minus button was definitely good, but same should happen also to plus button.

Do not get me wrong, now it seems, that everybody can freely agree... For people from post soviet countries which are now in EU which is moving towards communism, it makes bad feeling for me. I wish at least computer gaming without politics.

If there would me neither one of these buttons, it would look more nature in my opinion.

yup

but can I post links without quoting, now that my rep has been removed...we'll find out

[gog forum mafia signup link]

Nah I can't.

I'm positively supporting this and have been waiting for this as well. Thank you GOG!

Don't see any reason to remove the plus button as well. Of course, one can also have groups of like-minded constantly patting themselves no matter what they say (love the analogy with a vampire-coven where the inhabitants are feeding off of each other), however, that is a far, far, far less of a problem as abusing the plus sign isn't by nature a negative reinforcement.

Besides, one can just remove the knot between the rep number and the forum all together so there is zero gain in doing so and instead just have a rep number/points based on purchases and reviews only (one of the biggest computer hardware companies in Norway, komplett.no, has a simple tiered point system where the more you purchase the more you get access to lower and better prices).

And as to "hide" or "removing" unwanted posts? Well, we now thankfully have an official spam report thread, and the rest can people individually hide/ignore for themselves if they don't like what he/she writes. I think with this we're back to how it should be, just like the rest of our society. And yes, adding a "report post"-button will just be like going back to square one again. On Steam people needs to write why they want to report the post, and abusing that results in a ban. Or add in a non-google "gotcha"-type window. Doesn't matter, as long as it's an added hinder for the one that reports so one lessens the amount of abuse there.

Though, I'm reading with concern how some people are more and more getting fascistic towards people they don't like, or see opinions clash with, and deliberately wants to "silence" them. Like they don't see the difference here. Worse is, they want a centralized system in place to do it for them instead of just personally ignore them and/or go somewhere else...

So yeah at the moment I can't post links. Which is the penalty for having negative rep.

Now that the rep system has been seemingly removed, maybe it'd be nice to be able to post links too.

It's just hidden. Click My Settings to see your forum reputation.

Well, at least they did something about it being an actual fucking headache.

I love this so much. Heck, maybe I'll even start posting here again.

I really hope they're going against the downvotes on reviews next and get the review bombing fixed. It's just not looking professional.

Also, left a few upvotes here now that I know they won't go to waste. We'll get you out of there, Pooka.