Dear Seun,

As you may know, Nairaland might be your 'baby' since it's your sweat and hard work, but I (and I suppose a lot of users) as a stakeholder share a similar view about Nairaland being a project I'm part of and whose growth is dependent on my contributions and addition.

The 'Like' button is encoded here for users to express their agreement/likeness of posts or comments which is a commendable addition, however, I suppose it might have skipped your mind that users also need to (silently) express their dislike for posts and comments they don't agree with or that they dislike.

An example is me disliking the recent news about NBC's 5million naira fine to Naija Info FM over the broadcast of an interview of a former CBN director. Asides making a comment, I also want to express my disgust at such news by hitting a 'Dislike' button.
Another is me encountering comments about subtle hate for certain tribes, or opposite gender, religion, etc. I may not be in the mood or right state to call out the poster/commenter in a comment, but still want to express myself to the commenter silently.

I would like you to take a moment to check out the comment section of LindaIkeji's blog, and also YouTube as references to how Nairaland might look like if you implement my suggestion.

I hope you fully understand my point and references. I am looking forward to a reaction from you & your team.

Regards

Cc Lalasticlala, Mukina2

Nice suggestion



i hope seun will consider this nairaland seems to be boring these days and filled with so much hate and tribalistic comments.

Interesting observation but the dislike button on social media platforms has done more damage than good over the years.

Suicide and depression among young people can be attributed to social media (trolling or disapproved via dislike buttons). And with a platform as Nairaland where there are divergent views, a dislike button might trigger or see a sharp increase in depression, and possibly suicide among Nigerians.

So many social media platforms are either muting the dislike buttons or not showing dislike counts for those reasons.

From a psychological point of view, a dislike button will see Nairaland become a troll farm.

Once there is like, there should be dislike too.

If you don't like a post, ignore it. Or report it if it breaks any rules. No need for a dislike button.

I concur. Please add the dislike button on the next update.

Where is the button already??...lemme dislike tho post

I posted my disgust at that fine. It disappeared for awhile but is back now. Thanks Mods!

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If only "a project I'm part of" were understood.

LMServices:
Interesting observation but the dislike button on social media platforms has done more damage than good over the years.

Suicide and depression among young people can be attributed to social media (trolling or disapproved via dislike buttons). And with a platform as Nairaland where there are divergent views, a dislike button might trigger or see a sharp increase in depression, and possibly suicide among Nigerians.

So many social media platforms are either muting the dislike buttons or not showing dislike counts for those reasons.

From a psychological point of view, a dislike button will see Nairaland become a troll farm.

I think you might need to visit the comment section (of a post with lots of comments) on LindaIkeji's blog like I earlier suggested to Seun to see a sample of what I mean.
Whatever psychology is stroked through liking of comments should also be reprimanded by people against the person's point of view/bias through disliking such comment.

Suicide and other stuff you stated as a probable result seem unfathomable to me, especially as these suicide are results of having low likes on attention seeking platforms like Instagram, NOT on forums like Reddit; and also from troll comments on the attention seeking platforms.
Nairaland is a faceless forum with people of different opinions dropping comments, I believe we should be able to express our silent displeasure to our fellow Nairalander through the dislike button.

E.g. People against my point of view on this topic that aren't willing to comment could simply hit a 'Dislike' button and move on.

Also, those of us against tribalism comments could simply hit the dislike button, especially if the comment was subtle and doesn't warrant reporting the comment.

I thought of something like this, but for the same psycholohical reasons I figured it wasn't necessary but the upvotes and downvote would work better ans they'll push negative stuff down the viewing order and all the useless ads and porn stuff would go down too and would even be easier for mods to filter that way

emmy512:
I thought of something like this, but for the same psycholohical reasons I figured it wasn't necessary but the upvotes and downvote would work better ans they'll push negative stuff down the viewing order and all the useless ads and porn stuff would go down too and would even be easier for mods to filter that way

You just inspired me to add that, if it's possible, Seun & co. should code a Nairaland comments algorithm that will relegate the most disliked comment to the very bottom. This will lead to positive comments on the first pages and that will sure feel like a breath of fresh air from the negative comments flooding in here.