laurie said...

The thumbing system was initially built to help moderators with an increasingly out of control Kitesurfing forum. It worked - it culled the idiots, and help moderators keep the forum civil.

Along came the SUP forums, where a few people abused the reds, but not to much great degree.

Then came the Longboard/Surfing forums.

Some members in these forums have used the red thumbs to a whole new level.

Due to feedback in here, we built some analytics to help us look deeper into the usage of thumbs.

And we were shocked at what we found.

I couldn't actually imagine that somebody would abuse the red-thumb system to such a degree as they did.

Specifically, using at least two logins this person dished out 2000+ red thumbs to 300+ individual logins, versus giving 45 green thumbs. Even after triple checking the numbers, I struggle to fathom this happened.

With that level of dissatisfaction, we're left wondering why they visit the forums at all?

These logins have been suspended, and changes are afoot to address things so this can never happen again.

No doubt there are people who say "discard the thumbs altogether", and this is a possibilty, and some people are eager for Seabreeze to become like Google & Facebook where they only have a +1 or "Like" button

Numerous other sites (i.e. YouTube, and most forums) have a +1 / -1 system to help administer things - too bad it was abused here, but we're now addressing this.

By all means, please throw your 2c in here, and be assured it will all go into the mix...

Legion said...
No issue with longboards in real life. I don't really interact with them much and the ones that I do are generally not kooks. A few groms who want to be hipsters, that's about it.

I can't criticise Mac, he's the prez. See, I'm learning.

(urgh, I feel dirty even saying that in jest)