Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Octane Wow, Interesting. I didn’t realize you can’t see your own downvotes. Yikes. Well I suppose ignorance is bliss.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Well, it's not really any different to seeing a reply saying ''You're wrong'' with a ton of likes. This is just more... direct I presume. As long as it doesn't change the order the comments are displayed in it should be fine. If downvoted comments get pushed to the bottom of the page, you can definitely end up with a hivemind situation where everything that doesn't follow the status quo isn't being heard.

@Octane Maybe... . I reckon people will think twice before posting as @Th3solution has suggested.
Who knows. Next up ‘Rep. points’?

@Kidfried That's true. It's only for other people to see; so I have really no idea what the idea behind it is!

A post of mine on the most recent Sony censorship article just... disappeared. Very weird.

@Th3solution I don't know whose brilliant idea it was to add a downvoting function to the article comments, but it's not going to go over well. Like on NL, this forum has a bit of a fanboy problem in the comments sections, and this function is just going to encourage people to jump on posts that disagree with the mob.

We already have a "like" function, so unless the intention is to root out and eliminate unpopular opinions and posts, I don't see the point in this.

@Th3solution It got added yesterday I think (saw a comment from Ant about it) and I’m inclined to agree. I don’t see what good comes of it, and just seems like it puts us towards IGN or gamefaqs that we never want or be. A downvote comment is never something that’s made this community better.

@RogerRoger Don't worry, too many downvotes don't mean anything to us mods yet (at least, over at NL). We don't get notified when a comment gets too many downvotes. It's nothing to worry about.

@RogerRoger Well, not over here, but on NintendoLife! But same site, same system, same everything basically

Apart from the occasional hater or fanboy, this is usually a quite friendly community. Because of that, I don't think downvotes is a good idea for here.

Downvoting comments isn't really something I approve of either. I like this community because almost everyone can have a civil conversation even if their opinions are conflicting. I've only put one user on ignore in my 4 years on this site, and that's the only time I've seen issue here. I don't really think that will change because of downvoting, but I view it as a way of covering your ears and going "LALALALAICANTHERYOULALALA" instead doing any actual discussion. I guess my ego's protected because I can't see any downvotes for myself (Probably for the best since I tend to be a contrarian), but I'd rather hash out any difference of opinion than just go "Nope! Dislike!".

Or maybe I'm making ado about nothing. I can never tell.

Ah so that is how it works. Downvoting. Not sure I like it because almost 73% of my content is sarcasm and bad jokes. This is going to hit my ego hard (that's not even a joke). Can you see if you have personally been down voted?

@Rudy_Manchego No, you can’t see your own comments’ downvotes, if that’s what you’re asking. So you’ll never know if anyone dislikes what you say!

What I want is the ability to downvote my own comments. Sometimes I say stupid things that I disagree with.

Well, maintenance fixed the busted pipe in the wall today. It was a quick ordeal they had to cut into the wall from the outside to replace the pipe. There was no damage to my place the downstairs neighbor though has a mold situation now.

I dressed up as Nathan Drake at work today. So far people like it. I won’t lie, dressing up at work is a lot of fun.

@KratosMD That's good to hear that they fixed it and solved the problem. That's one reason I don't throw grease down the drain. I usually just drain grease into an empty jar or coffee can and toss it in the trash when it gets full. Hopefully nothing for damged.

So I'm only working 3 days next week.

I asked for Tuesday off due to my physiotherapy appointment and not being sure what the aftermath would be, and I got it.

I figured they'd swap me into another day, but no, they put it as paid holiday.

@RogerRoger Not really. They tend to care about the staff and make sure you are accomodated.

I'm just not used to it from any job I've done. Same with being thanked. It's weird.

@RogerRoger Dunno. Initial assessment is on Tuesday morning.

That'll be two months after making my first appointment with my GP, and 6 weeks after referral.

@RogerRoger Yeah...it's bad. But hey that's the NHS for you.

I'm struggling to fill my day with things now. I work 6pm to midnight, 24 hours per week. Annoyingly that means to make it for work I miss most of the day. So I'm bored.

There are some great games, but everything having a 40 hour minimum runtime there’s days is killing me. It’s so hard to finish games sometimes. I’m playing Horizon and I just realized I’m only 20H in. I should be complaining as the game is fantastic, but realizing I’m just halfway is strangely disheartening. I want to complete games while still moving between them. I remember the days when I replayed games a lot. No more does this happen.