vindictive use of thumbs, page-106

The main reason for only showing the "UP's" is because back in the day when it showed both people would seriously go off topic in the form of baiting and flaming the anonymous member(s) that personally thumb down their posts. Guess everyone wants to be shown love and not hated or shown negativity towards a post of their own.

In the end the amount of TOU's submitted on a daily basis just for "Off Topic" "Flaming Baiting" just got to much for the HotCopper volunteer moderators to look after. Remember we have a life on HotCopper too and wish to have our own peace and quiet times. But dealing with useless inflaming posts that derail the threads quick smart, is something we wish to reduce and hopefully stop, but we know that could never happen. So if we put in measures to help reduce the work load we are all for it.