In the topic 'Private Messages', I downvoted Andre's comment, because I disagreed with his thoughts. I thought that downvoting was to show your opinion on a comment, similar to a dislike. Andre saw this, and interpreted it as me marking the comment spam. After this confusion, I strongly suggest to the developers to create a like, dislike, and flag button, independent of each other. Having the downvotes and likes added together does not represent the votes well, so a counter next to likes, dislikes, and flags would be better. Flagging would be what downvoting is now, to mark as spam. This way, a downvote for a disagreement wouldn't be marked as spam.
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I personally think that the best way to show disagreement with someone else's opinion on the board is to reply to it with exposing your reasons to dislike it. I think that downvoting is well suited to mark topics/comments that aren't helpful. Spam is only one example, but posts with no content, gibberish, irrelevant, vulgar/aggressive language, badly written, or otherwise not even trying to follow the guidelines posted at the top of each sub-board should be downvoted in my opinion.
Andre has blocked me, probably after disliking my ideas on the board. I would like to apologize to him on his wall, but cannot, due to him muting me. Could you please ask him to unmute me? I did not mean anything personal when I downvoted his comment on a feature request. I didn't read the "When should I downvote a comment?" post on the board, and didn't know that it could offend Andre so much. I love Audiotool, and I simply want to apologize to him directly.
It's not up to me to get involved in conflicts between people on AT. I'm sure that André can read your comment on this topic and react to it. Ah, there you go.
Maybe comprehensive spam filters can help.
Posts with keywords can be blocked, and if streams of feature requests is a problem, there could be a limit to requests that a user can make in a day.
After a few more years, monitoring AT manually will no longer be practical, and automated filters will be needed. The first step toward this was the 3-letter filter, and now I believe the devs should expand on the filter.