I really miss a "Thank you" option.
Actually the bulletin board software completely supports it, but most forums turn it off because it leads to strife.
I do not like this idea at all.
Understandable. And we would probably see that all the time in that two different people might mark the argument with different fallacies. I guess another problem would be is, unless the program allowed for multiple fallacies to be listed, it would be hard to choose if multiple fallacies were used, even assuming they were correctly identified. Still I think that it would be a good thing in that people can see how others are viewing their arguments, and maybe learn to not use that particular fallacy.
Maybe, and more likely if each noting was listed as to who made it. We already have people who call out the fallacy in their posts. But when it comes to the single person claiming that I have made a fallacy, I am more likely to assume that they are in the wrong, if my conviction is strong that I have not. However, if 12 other people also noted that fallacy, even if they never otherwise commented, I would have to take pause and think about whether I did make the fallacy or not. Like any tool, it could work well or poorly or a combination of both.
Now would that be something that is in addition to the like, i.e. part of the reactions list, or is it a separate feature that I could like, like a post for it's civility or even agree with the conclusion but have to point out the fallacy used?
I was thinking more along the lines of someone already called it, and you just want to back it up without further comment. The problem with the "like" response is that you really don't know why they did it. You might just like how civil they were.
So you think that the people who would use this type of comments are all angels and saints and always right.
I have been know to 'like' conservative posts simply because they were particularly well written and moderate in tone. The ideas therein.... uuuuggghhh. You are right that there is no way to thank a poster for being supportive of your work that is not confused with liking the other content in addition.
I don't want to post because it draws too much attention, takes up more of the page, and requires people to scroll through a two inch wide post for the words 'thank-you which offers little value to everyone else for the acreage. I want to use a thank-you button in order to quickly and discreetly thank them for their support. Its a lot like pushing a 'like' button with its inherent convenience and advantages, only the word on top is different.
I'm not sure where you got this from. I never intended to imply such, although I could have inadvertently done so. I mean I have disliked posts that have a conclusion I agree with, but dislike how it was presented, or that it used faulty logic to arrive at that conclusion.
Yes. People who dislike you will spam every post with derogatory marks, whether you call then dislikes or thumbs downs or whatever. They are always much more often used than positive marks like likes or agrees.
I was thinking more like you would see that 5 people thought you were using a strawman fallacy, while another 3 thought it was a red herring fallacy. You wouldn't necessarily know who claimed what, and most likely at least one person, most likely the one you were trading arguments with, you point out in their post what fallacy they claimed you had committed. And in seeing that, you might pause and ask if you worded something that gave the impression of one or both of those, or maybe misworded from what you intended to actually have made that fallacy. I know I have done that before.