Originally Posted by
OverThereTooMuch
Definitely disagree. There's crappy content, wrong answers or people that reply before clearly reading the post. Many, many valid reasons to say the post wasn't useful. In some forums, you use the balance of +/- votes to determine whether or not the content even appears in the viewing stream. That's likely far too complex for IB to even consider though.
Personally, I'd rather see someone reply to misinformation with correct information (and ideally cite the source, but I know that's not always possible) instead of just giving a rating on an incorrect post. Corrected information is way more helpful to me than just saying a post is wrong without saying what is right.
This whole "Like" or whatever system just strikes me as a solution in search of a problem and promotes laziness in my opinion. While I don't read every single forum on FT, I would hope that there aren't posters that are purposely posting incorrect information, but I would certainly report to a mod if I saw such activity happening.