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Ok I had this idea in another thread and felt it deserved it's own thread..


I truly believe this would be the end of lowering commissions and disrespecting suppliers as there are way too many suppliers to not take into account if such application had existed on google.

This could be the better and more effective solution than forming a union to protect our rights since we are all individuals on the web spread all around the world.. It is almost impossible to form a proper union because there will always be too many contributors who have not joined the union..

But if there was a tool like this, everybody, individually, without the need of a union, would help us have better agencies..

Come on now! Anybody knows how we let google know about this idea?

 

 

And we think astroturfing is a problem NOW?

Miss-used this idea would be a tool of the devil. The unintended consequences could be truly devastating. Another concept with merit only in a perfect world where the inhabitants of the World Order dwell.

It might work if there was a way to stop people abusing the system.  Google seem to be quite good at that with adsense.  I really can't see google going for this though, as they want to make money and businesses that get lots of dislikes aren't going to want to pay for advertising.

Yep.

I thought about this myself.. even thought of Facebook having a dislike button. As said before.. it will only be used in a dishonest and inefficient way.

SS will get many "likers" too! The ratio between "likes" and "dislikes" should be taken into account as well..

There are some evil agents who will not get many "likers" and that is what counts..

This tool could be great if abuse can be prevented...

I highly doubt that.

First off, in general more people who have a negative experience will raise their voice than people who had a pleasant experience.

Secondly, according to my referrals on SS only 1 in 50 applicants gets in. That's 50 people who will be pi$$ed off vs. one who might not even "like" SS.

I doubt it would work...

Since I am into internet marketing also, with my own websites... a tool like this would be a dream and a nightmare. You could run some imacro script through proxies against a competing site to go for a higher listing in googles search. It could be used against your site too. I think I would rather this not come to be.

Oh yeah, just implement this, and watch it get abused by hackers, black-hat 'seo experts' and the rest... You'll wish it was never thought of.

And part two of that, why not reward good sites with positive instead of taking the negative approach. Boost the ones that get positives, instead of being harmful and hurtful to the ones you don't like. Makes more sense? Seems some people are dwelling on revenge and harm as a solution. Positives are a better way to help the ones that do the right things.

What, the link or app that keeps making the pages here hang up and not load. That plusone.google.com which I'd like to shoot out of a canon! Or maybe the bullseye ads that also hangs up. I think it's the site, not the browser but I might be wrong. (never happened before?) 

Lets face it, any plus system or negative system can be manipulated. Most have at minimum IP address recording, cookies and some version of memory so someone can't just keep coming back and voting all night long and so bots can't be set to do page hit and votes. But whether it's positive or negative, it's flawed.

Not to be picky but take for example the survey on the right for sales from sites. All it would take is some second tier or non-top six site to have a few stooges vote big sales numbers and it would push them up in the rankings. Make people think that someplace that sells under $5 a month was really hot like the big agencies. When the forum messages don't match the survey for a site, it's suspicious.

what percentages of sites would need this feature? Which site in its right mind would still have this feature in it if it started getting all the negative dislikes. You cant possibly expect every site to have this feature including blog sites, the govt sites will will get tons of dislike features...