Likes given and likes received

[Diana]

[quote='Meerie' pid='86534' dateline='1337756512']
How can you know the intent of a person giving the like?
how can you say it is divisive?

The like button as a tool for divisiveness is quite obvious to me at times, and this is just my own perception. Although the intent cannot be known, the result of ostracizing is real.

I don't think this has any place in a community with such high values as Bring4th. I think the negative outweighs the positive. Of course, as with any tool, it's not the fault of the tool. It's just a tool. Like a knife intended to chop vegetables, being used to kill someone. It's not the fault of the knife; the fault is in how it's used. But as long as people are going to use something that was intended as an uplifting thing, in a way to hurt others, then at least we shouldn't make it easy for them by handing over the knife.

I think we should not censor. There may be members that band together against someone (intentionally or unintentionally) without considering the whole picture (I am referring to observations of my own, however fallible they may be), and this is unfortunate on a site which deals with the LOO; however, anyone of a mature and enlightened consciousness will see through this sort of thing. I say let the children play. The adults here can just shrug their shoulders and sigh.

In the (paraphrased) words of George Thorogood, "It don't confront me none."