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HeyNK

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Joined: 2017-04-07

Posts: 1,318

Remove woots

They make people reliant on the validation of peers, and thier validation, and reduce the ability to judge for yourself the world around you, which i feel is a socalist mental-reprogramming tactic.

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Gosha

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From: Russia

Joined: 2015-03-15

Posts: 6,211

Re: Remove woots

lol are you crazy
woots are the best thing we have
They should remove likes in-game and replace them back with woots

Bimps

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Joined: 2015-02-08

Posts: 5,067

Re: Remove woots

looks like u've had a bit too much to think mr. nk

XxAtillaxX

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Joined: 2015-11-28

Posts: 4,202

Re: Remove woots

I've never sought the validation of others in the community, nor have I ever wooted posts I didn't genuinely like, regardless of author.

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Minimania

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Joined: 2015-02-22

Posts: 6,396

Re: Remove woots

They make people reliant on the validation of peers, and thier validation, and reduce the ability to judge for yourself the world around you, which i feel is a socalist mental-reprogramming tactic.

Citation needed

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LukeM

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From: England

Joined: 2016-06-03

Posts: 3,009

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Re: Remove woots

(Idk whether this is serious, so I'm going to assume it is)

Woots are a great way of showing you agree with someone or like their idea / creation without needing to actually comment. Without them you would have to post something to agree, which is both more effort, and spammy

Also, If woots weren't a thing and you had to reply to say something is good, people would still be looking for validation, it would just be as posts instead of names under the post... If you wanted to prevent people from seeking validation we should remove posts altogether, only allowing the topic owner to post in their topic to prevent any feedback

Tomahawk

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From: UK

Joined: 2015-02-18

Posts: 2,851

Re: Remove woots

I agree to an extent; I sometimes have a look at how many woots I’ve got for a certain post, and I’m more likely to support a post with lots of woots, or read all of it if it’s long.

But woots/likes/upvotes etc. allow you to show support very quickly and easily, without having to spam “I agree” or “I like this”, and afaik there’s no alternative that won’t create the same validation issues.

The forums - nay, the world - would be a blander place without validation. It’s not necessarily harmful, and it’s what we do anyway irl, just verbally or in writing.

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TaskManager

Formerly maxi123

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Joined: 2015-03-01

Posts: 9,465

Re: Remove woots

Woots are but a social construct, an illusion, fake internet points that show you how many people admire your post
Free yourself from this ignorance, don't  woot!

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Offensive Ray

Formerly omarabdulhaq

From: Mars

Joined: 2016-03-22

Posts: 768

Re: Remove woots

They make people reliant on the validation of peers, and thier validation, and reduce the ability to judge for yourself the world around you, which i feel is a socalist mental-reprogramming tactic.

Really, I love you all and I never want to see any of you hurt. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Please.

Ooh what have I done right now!
I've just wooted a removing woots topic!

Don't think that the idea would be good. However that woot was just a joke

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BuzzerBee

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Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 4,575

Re: Remove woots

I don't think anyone relies on woots for validation but if you do then I am... concerned

Anyway woots were a way to replace reputation (if I'm not mistaken) and although I miss reputation, woots are cool and I use them ironically mostly; I don't use them to give people "validation" unless I just really agree with their post

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Harmonious

Formerly jkdrip

Joined: 2015-07-27

Posts: 644

Re: Remove woots

lol are you crazy
woots are the best thing we have
They should remove likes in-game and replace them back with woots

Please no
Remember that woots would go away over time? That was annoying af.
Unless you're just suggesting that likes be called woots. That would be fine

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N1KF

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From: ဪဪဪဪဪ From: ဪဪဪဪဪ From: ဪဪဪဪဪ

Joined: 2015-02-15

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Re: Remove woots

It seems that woots are generally used to mean one of the following:

1. "I agree with this"

2. "This is high-quality"

3. "This is funny"

4. "This is so bad it's good"

This means that low-effort joke posts are put on the same level as high-effort posts. As a result, people mix their serious concerns with their wit, which I theorize is why have such a presence of highly wooted sarcastic ding-dong gotcha posts on this otherwise semi-pleasant forum.

I propose we have different woot categories for different post types. We can't stop people from wooting posts ironically (except by tracking down their locations and brainwashing them—an extent which we haven't quite reached yet), so this leaves us with "agreed", "high-effort", and "funny" for our woot categories. But would this increased complexity be worth it?

Bimps

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Joined: 2015-02-08

Posts: 5,067

Re: Remove woots

which I theorize is why have such a presence of highly wooted sarcastic ding-dong gotcha posts on this otherwise semi-pleasant forum.

once again i state that you take this forum way too seriously. half the stuff you complain about is a non-issue if you just take this as a chill forum

Ratburntro44

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Re: Remove woots

remove woots

reinstate rep

N1KF

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From: ဪဪဪဪဪ From: ဪဪဪဪဪ From: ဪဪဪဪဪ

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Posts: 11,157

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Re: Remove woots

which I theorize is why have such a presence of highly wooted sarcastic ding-dong gotcha posts on this otherwise semi-pleasant forum.

once again i state that you take this forum way too seriously. half the stuff you complain about is a non-issue if you just take this as a chill forum

I'm sorry. I really need to focus on the things that truly matter.