@moonbus saidI object to it because I see it an infantile feature that this site ought to get rid of.
@divegeester
The real issue here is not thumbs. The real issue is that you (and @fmf) reap a large amount of negative feedback which you think is unfair and you suspect that it is due to a small number of posters who have multiple accounts. That is the real issue here. Eliminating the thumbs feature is not the solution; it would unfairly penalize the many posters he ...[text shortened]... d @fmf don't have to see the thumbs, but the feature remains active and anonymous for everyone else.
@divegeester saidSo every time someone disagrees with the abuse that you dish out, they are abusing the system?
No, I think the “real issue” here is that the thumbing feature is being abused.
Are you being repressed, too?
@divegeester saidOK, here‘s another analogy: I don‘t object to clowns at the circus even though I go primarily for the dancing horses.
Yours is a rubbish analogy.
PS For the literarily challenged: „circus“ is a metaphor for RHP, „dancing horses“ is a metaphor for actually playing chess here, „clowns“ is a metaphor for some of the people who post at the forums here, and „literarily challenged“ is a metaphor for people Shav would call a mor-on second thought, Shav has a good thread going on favorite paintings.
21 Feb 23
@moonbus saidIt’s another poor analogy doesn’t relate to anyone with an opinion on the suggestion in my OP because, and to add to your circus metaphors: the horses are in a separate tent, and the clowns are ruining the magic act, which a subset of those wishing to see the horses are also paying to see.
OK, here‘s another analogy: I don‘t object to clowns at the circus even though I go primarily for the dancing horses.
PS For the literarily challenged: „circus“ is a metaphor for RHP, „dancing horses“ is a metaphor for actually playing chess here, „clowns“ is a metaphor for some of the people who post at the forums here, and „literarily challenged“ is a metaphor for people Shav would call a mor-on second thought, Shav has a good thread going on favorite paintings.
I’d give up on the metaphors if I were you, and just stick to trying to close down the debate about anonymous thumbs.
@divegeester saidThen why are you so desperate to stop people pointing out the clowns?
It’s another poor analogy doesn’t relate to anyone with an opinion on the suggestion in my OP because, and to add to your circus metaphors: the horses are in a separate tent, and the clowns are ruining the magic act, which a subset of those wishing to see the horses are also paying to see.
23 Feb 23
@shallow-blue saidNon sequitur; and incongruent with the point of the OP.
Then why are you so desperate to stop people pointing out the clowns?
26 Feb 23
@divegeester saidHe was saying he doesn't object to X so why should I object to Y.
Yours is a rubbish analogy.