The Thumbs Down Fairy

I never really gave to much thought to the thumbs down fairy.  I knew he/she was out there but didn't really think it was all that important or harmful to bloggers here on the site.  Recently I have seen more and more blog posts specifically about the fairy and it's evil ways.  This struck me as a tad bit odd because I feel like bloggers should be able to blog about what ever they want, but having a blog specifically about the fairy seemed like it might be a sign that the fairy was causing more harm then good.  More importantly a blogger shouldn't have to blog about a thumbs down when there is way more important things to discuss like the downfall of western civilization.

In looking at the future of 2o2p and specifically the next version we want to put out, we finally have an opportunity to kill the fairy once and for good.  The thumbs system never worked the way I really wanted it to.  It was idealy supposed to allow the user control over what was shown on the blog strip and keep spammers from having their way.  It still "works" a little in that function, but the community itself generally handles issue via comments and PMs.  As such Im going to be removing the thumbs up and down completely in v3.0.  You may still be able to "vote" on a 5 start version but I'm undecided and it will have little or no impact on the content presented.  I do want to find a way to track and display some of the bloggers that the community really loves here on 2o2p.  Top bloggers seems to work well via views and we always try to promote content to the home page when we think someone has really written something bad ass (go go maxie), but if you guys have any other ideas I would love to hear them. 

doodi