Thanks for the change VV. But, I would have actually preferred a like/dislike button which refers specifically to the post and not the poster. I've seen plenty of posts replying "+1" but never seen a "-1"
You've just removed something that I was winning at..I'd like to keep mine please. I didn't post for a couple of months and accumulated 60 smites from the 'fake woke' brigade.
I dislike this idea more than I disliked the smite facility. Why does someone need a pat on the back for a post? - Some radical thinking here, but why not have some debate instead. The smite thing was just a debate and conversation stifler, let's not have another version of it.
Q for VV. Given this fundamental change, will there be a relaxing of the Opinion Policing? Or do we all still have to ignore our differences and pretend to get along?
I very much doubt you accumulated those smites from a brigade, woke or otherwise. It may not have been aimed specifically at you. Certain threads seem to pick them up in huge numbers, where nobody was in disagreement on the thread, but everyone was smited, and the threads did nothing more than discuss injuries or say if they were going to match. Given the number of huge overnight jumps on some posters, and the fact that you cannot repeat an action within an hour, and that some people literally gained 15-20 in a couple of days without posting, something odd was going on. If it was a group,I doubt it was not a group of Wasps rugby fans here.
Smites themselves disable conversations, and this removes the possibility that someone was attempting to target the entirity of the site users on particular threads at random times. Now if you want to express an opinion against what has been written you have to respond in print, which is fair enough, if someone was randomly doing it to spread discord they can't now, and we can have the debates about rugby instead. FWIW I don't think it is possible to remove all buttons, from my limited digging around the best you can do is reset totals and/or disable smites. Maybe it would be better to have none at all, but that is not an option.