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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by inanutshellus on Monday February 15, 2016 @01:12PM (#11104892)
> Maybe we just need a 'dislike' button along with the 'like' button. It'd certainly be an interesting experiment.

FWIW, this is coming very soon to FB in the form of "reactions" rather than a simple "dislike" feature.

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/27/facebook-reactions-launch...

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by humanrebar on Monday February 15, 2016 @01:21PM (#11104954)
Does that feature allow negative feedback? A frown for bad news is positive feedback.

I'm concerned that all reactions might be treated as good reactions. That is, that there is no way to politely disapprove. Does anyone have any more details on this?

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by Nelson69 on Monday February 15, 2016 @02:12PM (#11105238)
The genius of it all is there is no 'hate' or 'dislike' button. It only allows 'positive' or no results.

I suspect facebook and company will come up with a solution to the problem of how do you indicate that you saw something without commenting when it's not socially acceptable to 'like' it. For example a funeral announcement, you don't want to 'like' it but you want to say 'thank you' or something yet you might not want to comment.

A real dislike or hate button would simply result in a lower signal/noise ratio. Maybe new types of bullying where lot's of people 'hate' on somebody.

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by greggman on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @09:04AM (#11109822)
It's already been shipping for a while. 3-4 weeks?
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