At one time we had Vote as Helpful, Vote as Unhelpful and Vote as Abusive on a single dropdown. This was removed because it limited the "discoverability" of the Vote as Helpful feature.
Personally, I do not think Vote as Unhelpful is sufficiently useful to justify (further) cluttering the interface. IMHO, the forums have to many features, not too few.
David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVP
Hi Dave
It was also removed for the same reason the ability to mark the -1 should be removed. These are just 'flame bait'. As we can see here, the Report As Abuse falls into the same category.
A large number of the responses, when someone used that 'unhelpful' option was "WTF!!! who marked my post as unhelpful??? I spent 2 hours researching that question and what I posted WAS the correct information!!!" And then the war was on.
If the person who marked a post as unhelpful was ever identified, then that person could expect to be stalked and all of his subsequent posts would contain the same unhelpful mark.
My opinion.
Regards,
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Ronnie Vernon MVP
