Should we get rid of Groans? Vote Now

[BRUTALITOPS]

A lot of people have started to complain about groans and getting groan-spammed etc.

So we have decided to put this to a vote.

Note: we are talking about JUST groans. We will be keeping "thanks"

Here are the pros and cons as far as I see it.

Pros:

• Sometimes someone says something really stupid. It's very convenient to basically dismiss ones argument without having to bother responding to a mouth breather

• Some people actually deserve being groaned for their idiotic opinions.

• Sometimes Groans can be used for humor. I.E. watermark says something really optimistic and inspiring and I groan him.

Cons:

• People abuse the groan feature, and will mass groan the shit out of people, even without reading peoples posts
• People are less likely to go out of their way to "mass thank" someone, as no one wants to be that positive.
• It clogs up peoples notification inbox as it will bump thanks to the background

Here is how the voting will work.

Voting will only be open to regular active members. We aren't going to let people that barely post here to make decisions about JPP.

Here is the approved list of voters:

• annie
• aoxomoxoa
• BAC
• beefy
• bfgrn
• billy
• boris the animal
• callinectes
• cawacko
• charver
• christiefan
• classic liberal
• crashk
• damo
• darla
• disillusioned
• don quixote
• dungheap
• evince
• Grind
• howey
• I love america
• iolo
• leaningright
• jarod
• mott
• nova
• obfuscate
• philly rabbit
• postmodernprofit
• professor baxter
• racerx
• rana
• rationalist <-- Brent
• rune
• sedan
• signalman
• socratease
• sjjrsjjs
• smarterthanyou
• steelplate
• superfreak
• susiecutzpah
• taichiliberal
• tekkychick
• thing1
• threedee
• tinfoil
• usfreedom
• watermark
• winterborn
• yurt
• zappasguitar

Some peoples "standard" name might have been used, so just check.

I went first through the people that have visited in the last 24 hours, and then added that together with all the top posters going down to people that have made around > 100 posts.

Soooooo chances are if you are not on this list you aren't very active here, or you are very new. There is easily a chance I missed someone, so if you think you should be counted just shoot me a pm.

1. Anyone not on this masterlist will not have their vote counted.
2. Trolls and duplicates will obviously have their vote thrown away. If you try double voting both your votes will be thrown out.
3. Tie goes to keeping it.
4. Need at least 20 votes to be valid. (this shouldn't be hard because again this list if of pretty active users. So spam your buddies walls and get them to vote).