I was thinking about what some people were grieving about with the downvote system. So now I'm asking you what do you think Bored Panda should implement to this already awesome site?
No inappropriate comments, no drug dealing, no hate language, for the love of god NO POLITICS, and no trolls or spam messages. This is a civilized site, and I've already gotten d**k pics and all of the above.
Have fun!
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THE DOWNVOTE SYSTEM! I cannot emphasize how much this ticks me off. 10 downvotes or less can get you banned temporarily or permanently and the staff don't even listen or reach out to you! So many great members got banned due to a couple of rouge comments that were meant as a joke and such. Maybe we can replace the downvote system of banning with a downvote doing nothing and having a report button instead. Also, I think it would be very cool if we can edit answers or even change the font of our answers. Or maybe having a helpdesk or chatroom for people with questions and members with getting unbanned and such.
The downvoting is something that makes me very angry. Many are downvoted for a normal opinion or bc other's don't get the joke. I have contacted BP staff about this but the answer wasn't very clear. Maybe I could email them again about this. There is a button now that you can use to report and it works. I have also emailed about hate-speech and creepy stuff and have always received an answer and these users were banned. It is getting better .... but not perfect.
People do use downvotes when they simply dislike or disagree with a post. That's how it is everywhere online. Posters shouldn't be banned simply for posting something people didn't like (and I have been banned for that reason, so I agree this is unfair), but that is an issue with the way BP works, not the downvoters. No amount of complaining about it in these comments is going to change it.
Load More Replies...Also, some people just seem to randomly downvote anything they see? I've seen whole posts where at first almost every comment had gotten downvoted.
Downvote goblins drive me nuts.... So many times I go down through every comment and have to upvote every comment up to 0 cause someone have downvoted everything..... And If I call it out, I get downvoted!!
Load More Replies...I could not agree more with this. My old account that I had ever since this site started got suspended because I downvoted by trolls while trying to tell them off for some really racist comments. I tried contacting the BoredPanda team and heard absolutely nothing. Now, I had to make a whole new account and start from scratch. I have recently e-mailed the BoredPanda team regarding some trolls that were spreading hate speech against the LGBTQIA+ community online and their comments were removed. Still, the down-vote system is not cool as it really ends up hurting good users more so than it does trolls.
Ugh, that sucks! I only have two emails, and I'm trying to be careful and not be banned. I love your kitty, btw!
Load More Replies...If down voting is intended to function as a "report" feature.. Its a terrible idea... I've always thought that a voting feature would serve to bump up the highly ranked stuff over the less so....however, one bad dad joke child get you banned. If it is a report feature.. Where are the warnings or simple line under the buttons clarifying their purpose.
I'm 100% on this that it needs fixing. If you don't like or agree with a comment just scroll on by and carry on with your life. Same with anything offensive. There's a big difference between something that offends you and something being offensive. The former doesn't automatically mean it's also the latter.....as Ricky Gervais said "Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right"
BP could be like Ranker - which encourages you to vote up or down on literally everything - its fun to up & downvote there and no one gets suspended
Admins need to ease up on the censoring. Some of the words that are censored have absolutely no logic to it
I've seen a few Scunthorpe problems in some of the image censoring. This needs to stop. It makes the site look look stupid. The comment censor is over sensitive and you really do need to learn the difference between p-a-w-n and p-o-r-n.
Just imagine you would not need to write like a over protective mom talking to her three year old and using adult words.
It's gotten worse lately, I think cause they're aiming for a younger demographic.... Was a lot more adult when I first joined....
Load More Replies...Especially need to reevaluate when city, county, personal names etc etc are being bleeped... That isn't very good either
I feel bad for anybody on this site name D**k...
Load More Replies...I agree 100% with this. Censorship is not cool in any shape or form. I found it ironic that BoredPanda censors silly words like d**k and twat, yet posted one of the most sexually explicit posts about incels being horrible to woman that I think I ever read on a site that is supposed to be"family friendly."
I'm assuming you're being serious, so I'll give a reason. It's slang for a D**k. If not, then I just woooshed myself.
Load More Replies...B******e... Edit: Is usually censored what . Let's try again b******e
butthoIe (if you use a capital i in place of a lowercase L it will work for words where this is the case)
Load More Replies...This assumes that there are 'admins' that are a available for recourse etc. I've never seen one.... the whole lazy attitude to moderation seems to be 'well if enough people disagree with something someone is saying, then the algorithm bans them' If actual admins do exist then they're very very silent... and don't seem to answer any appeals for common sense.
For instance when I first read this topic, I actually assumed it was the admin team asking for user input and upvoted ideas would be prioritised for change... but this is just one of us users asking us what we'd like to see isn't it? No acknowledge or trust off the devs/admins at all that any of this is even being read by them.
Load More Replies...Too much tiktok rubbish on here now. Needs to go. 🤔
- Good News should have its own category. Right now it redirects to the people category and there are mostly depressing and sad stories, the opposite of Good News.
Today's society is so sad, we should really have a way to find the good things in life... It makes me happy to see some cute kitties or happy news.
I would suggest stopping contracting the vaccine threads. So for example of you have a thread of 100 images, don’t reduce it to 30 with the link to see the rest of the images. Just show the 100. I would also like to see formatting in the comments. So we can separate our comments into paragraphs etc which would make it easier to read. A notification if your comment gets 100 upvotes. You have it for 1 and 10 upvotes so why not 100
I absolutely agree with the last one. Idrc if I get one upvote, but I live for making people laugh at my dumb jokes, so I want to know what really works.
yeah same, like at least three of my comments have made it past 100 and i would've liked to know instead of finding it out when i'm looking to see why i got banned
Load More Replies...I just noticed an unintentional autocorrect. It’s meant to say the photo threads rather vaccine threads.
Ugh this drives me crazy not because they cut it down, but how fast that happens. At least give it 5 days at a full post then truncate it. I'm so tired of looking through responses to my comments and having to do the whole 'see more' link shuffle. They shorten it like literally a day- i swear it's less sometimes- after the post it posted, lol. I understand the reason is to save bandwidth, but at least give people some time to see the full posts.
Double checking for duplicates.
More positivity.
I agree! This site used to be primarily focusing on posting listicles and articles about fun things happening around the world. They also posted a lot of artwork from new artists. Now, a lot of their listicles are fairly negative and make me feel really bumped out. It's all AITA stuff and bizarre melodrama about TikTokers.
i like the tiktok life hacks and the crazy screenshots but everything else nope
Load More Replies...I rarely read the negative ones, but even just reading the negative headlines is a downer.
Exactly. So many more negative headlines to scroll over to search for any upbeat, positive content lately. And those AITA etc. can't help but wonder why so many, and why here at BP? If someone has to ask that question, the answer's usually obvious. So I keep scrolling. Lots of positive happening in our world to highlight & share.
Load More Replies...#2 The ability to edit your post right after you send it.
I regularly edit my posts after submitting them, when I realize there's A typo or (more often) Autocorrect gets me. It works just fine.
An option in our profile to always show the full post. If you've got a few "replied to your comment", and you have to load the thread, scroll to the bottom, click show all, wait for it to scroll to your reply, read it. Do it all over again. Particularly when you might have a few such replies/10votes etc. I'm not on dial up, just show the full thread (or put the show all at the top)
Or have the links to comments automatically open the full rather than the shortened view if the comment appears after the cutoff.
I suggested this to the admins long ago... yet here we (still) are
Load More Replies...Exactly. So annoying! I have 14 replies on a post once and had to do the load more shuffle over and over and over. So annoying. At least give it some time, like a week from the post before truncating it. I think if they want to keep this then just add a section in our profile to SEE the comments on our posts. Like... in the profile now we can see all of our comments. Maybe another section to see replies.
At the very least, please create a setting so that each user can select the option to see all posts for each article, and another setting to follow links to replies to their posts, whether or not the cutoff is enabled.
Quit selling out for ads! I used to spend hours a day reading the stories but having to close out 3 ads EVERY SINGLE TIME I open a story is too much.
I think that this is a hard one as unfortunately annoying advertisements provide BoredPanda with money to keep posting listicles.
I thought that was why some sites bug you to subscribe before you can read the content.
Load More Replies...At least the ads now seem to be from a more reputable source. I used to not dare visit the site without an ad blocker enabled as they were full of popups that exploded all over the screen.
¡The ads themselves aren't the problem! When I have to fight thru bouncing drop-downs, auto-play popups and most of the content is covered? That's the management at Panda telling being wildly willfully stupid. Like burning your house down to keep warm kind of stupid. It's management shouting to the world that their business model doesn't actually include content pe se... that content is *at best* tertiary to profits & wages. Tertiary may be a bit high on the scale though as it's miles below customer satisfaction in practice.
Ads themselves aren't the problem!!! Panda's excessive pop-ups & ads that block most of the content while bouncing up & down and autoplaying is what's making me leave. Enjoy the easy lite scrolling, but making me fight to see any actual content? Utter, willful greedy f#©k!ng stupid on steroids. Like burning down your own house to keep warm effwit stupidity.
Stop suspending people for downvoted opinions (the ones that are not abusive)
Human mods want money, money needs income, income needs paying users or more adds
Load More Replies...Add one more level of nested replies.
Some kind of DMs or chats (with a block option, for the trolls) would be fun. I know this probably wouldn't happen, I'm just thinking out loud :)
Yeah, I feel like in practice it's a terrible idea, but in a perfect world it would be fun to have actual conversations with other pandas
Load More Replies...Ok I just realized I didn't really think this through... this is all hypothetical, and in an ideal world it would be fun but yeah it's not a great idea
the ability for private chats... without giving private contacts...
Why on earth was this suggestion downvoted? Most internet forums have this feature.
I think a lot of users are nervous about this because BoredPanda has such a huge numbers of readers of different ages. There are people in their teens on here and people who are retired. I think that is incredibly neat that we have such a wide readership on this site from around the world, but we want to make sure to keep them safe.
Load More Replies...dark mode, to bright for me (did not see one so I am saying this)
More questions that allow answers to be added, like this one, will encourage more participation. Conversely when a set of answers (pictures, quotes, whatever) is so quickly limited to display the first n only, based on upvotes, it's difficult to see any new answers. Maybe only restrict the number of answers shown after a few days, rather than just a few hours as it currently seems to do.
Editing comments in the app. I hate switching to the browser view but the app does not offer editing to me.
I couldn't use the app for very long... It felt like it required you to perform a PERFECT perpendicular up and down swipe to read the article.. Anything slightly not perfect "swiped left or right" to a different article. Going back to finish only placed all the way back to the very top... The speed scroll down will likely accidently trip the swipe right and then you repeat several times.. Just to finish reading an entry. Granted this was some time ago but after that... I had no desire to try the app again.
fix the mod systems because all the bots arent banned but i am? thats kinda messed up
This, those bots spamming us with adds is quite annoying. Besides they can filter out "bad words" but cant filter out an add?
You also get banned if you tell a bot to go play in blender. I got my account banned for a comment to a bot. Imagine that. This site is really creepy with censorship.
Load More Replies...Fix the notifications. Sometimes I click on it, and it says there are none there. Sometimes I click on one, and it doesn't load at all. Sometimes I click on it, and it takes me to the article, but not my comment.
Yes. I added a similar comment as I didn't see this but yes, I have the same problem sometimes. In my opinion, the notifications is literally the appeal of this site. Without knowing if anyone is engaging with you, then what's the point? It makes me happy when I open the site and see I have 20 notifications waiting. It's like a rush of dopamine, lol. If this isn't working properly, that's a problem.
Well,s top hiding submissions for a start, b/c three are already hidden and I have no idea why. But please, please stop the incessant "Turn off your Adblocker" c**p. I get it. Money. Revenue. But I remember BP having ads so bad that you couldn't see the site through the pop-ups.... and now BP gives me a pop-up to turn off the adblocker! I just wanna browse your site!
This may be an issue only I'm having, but I find that the notifications don't seem to load properly sometimes to see any new comments/upvotes. So I have to go into my profile and go through each comment to see if there was any activity overnight. I also always make sure I copy anything I'm going to post because sometimes I'll click on post and everything I just wrote out disappears. Sometimes I have to do it more than once. Not sure if anyone else is experiencing these glitches but it's been going on for a while now.
When someone gets banned, Bored Panda erases their comments but does nothing to the negative points. If you are going to delete the comments, why ban them in the first place?
I see many comments regarding how downvotes are broken. I'll probably get downvoted for this suggestion: If you think about it, clicking upvote signals your approval, agreement, or you were entertained. NOT clicking upvote signals disapproval, disagreement, disinterest or just not entertained. You don't need a downvote button. If you don't like it, don't upvote. If you remove the downvote button and just leave Upvote and Report Abuse, then there is nothing complicated left to fix.
Addendum (repeating myself from another comment): if you want to express your dislike, you don't need a downvote button. Just leave a comment. Better yet, if you explain why you don't like something, maybe the rest of us will learn something.
Thanks. One of my submissions months ago had an upvote/downvote war, with the downvotes eventually winning out. I still don't know why it got downvotes, except for those few who did leave comments. Of those, it was clear many were reading something into my words that was not actually there.
Load More Replies...I still don’t know how to upload pictures
Private chats, no banning, no downvotes, ability to delete own posts
Banning in limitation and downvotes without bans are necessary
oh and srry for 2 posts (i cant comment) ive been banned from commenting 3 times now for the same comment which i cant even find now
I had my account suspended because of that. It wasn't even a bad comment as well. I contacted the BoredPanda team and they still haven't reinstated my old account.
Tell them if they don't you'll tell people all about their bad website management by making a bad Yelp review of them.
Load More Replies...Make it less addictive
Hi, no problem. In German (my origin) Jäger means hunter. According to Google translate it is the same meaning in Sweden but they call it 'Jägere'
Load More Replies...Blocking. We should be able to block people who consistently bother us- they don't see our posts, we don't see theirs.
To be able to add a photo in the comments. Sometimes we have something relatable but miss the posting time. It would be fun. Not sure about links outside of the site but just a photo as a comment to with a comment.
What does this button do ;-) Afbeelding...f1e8a5.jpg
Edit I see what you mean, was sure about being able to post photo's before?
When on mobile there is no photo option. In comments it’s text.
Load More Replies...Not something too terrible - just annoying to me.... Alphabetize the Categories!
Mine aren't. At least on my mobile site. Could be my c**p phone!
Load More Replies...less aggressive censoring and make removed comments say "(removed)" instead of just vanishing without a trace
Banning People. It should stop. They should make a new system for it
I wholeheartedly agree that there needs to be a better system. Unfortunately, it is usually the good users who have supported this site for several years that end up getting down-voted by trolls and getting their accounts banned or suspended for no reasons.
i got banned for making joke about ip adress once, it might was offensive. when i later on told a other guy about it i got banned again
Load More Replies...For people who spread hate speech against any type of community, I wholeheartedly agree that banning or suspending an user is necessary. However, BoredPanda's down-vote and report ystem sometimes catches good users as it can be used maliciously. I do hope that there is a better way to report harmful users-- I would love a way to block trolls!
Load More Replies...Maybe I have missed it on here, but I would like an easy to find link to "help". For things like how to post, how to edit a post, how to delete a post and things like that.
Add a notification for a comment getting downvoted to a negative score. That way you can see when something is clearly rubbing people up the wrong way. If banning people for negative scores remains a thing, then it would also let you go and delete the offending comment before a ban is made. However, I have to say that banning should only because a comment is clearly offensive and not because people don't agree with an opinion. The new reporting mechanism is a better idea for controlling offensive content.
i wish we can post videos
Banning people from commenting for no reason. Bp isn’t letting me make comments at all! What do I do? My original account is banned from commenting, and this one isn’t able to make comments either! You pandas are helping me through sadness and bullying, I can’t lose you! Please tell me what I can do ☹️
If it make you feel any better I got my account I had since this site started suspended for telling a spam bot to go play in a blender…yeah…I got banned for writing a sassy comment to a bot. BoredPanda is going to lose all their users if they keep on doing this.
Wallflower, if you write to community@boredpanda.com and politely explain the situation they will look into it. Give it a go .... and keep me posted please.
I'm back! BP important moderator people let me comment again
Load More Replies...make a new account and then use a free proxy extension, just search up "croxyproxy extension" add to chrome and enable it, you should be able to comment after that.
Less of a strict sensor, words are only bad if you use them or see them that way and most "bad" words have multiple meanings most with scientific meanings. It all depends on context. Also, if you are going to censore women's breasts why not censor men's breasts? If you're only censoring women's breasts than stop. Why censor them? They're not incorporate.
I’m not sure if this is already here but the ability to make little groups with people where you can share posts you find and just go at with people
I emailed the BP staff and this is the reply: Hello CaroCaro, Thank you for your email! We have recently made some changes to our community moderation system.Previously, if a comment received 10 downvotes, the comment author was assumed to have violated our guidelines and could face temporary or permanent suspension. However, we have now implemented a more effective approach. Instead of relying solely on downvotes, we have created a report button that allows our team to more easily identify and review comments or posts that potentially violate our community guidelines. This way, our dedicated team of moderators can more effectively and efficiently review all reported comments to identify those that spread hate speech or any other inappropriate content, and take appropriate action to maintain a positive and safe community. Please feel free to review the updated community guidelines: https://www.boredpanda.com/community-guidelines/.
Welcome Loki. I think this means that even if you get -10 they still check instead of an automatic suspension... At least, that's what I think is said. And yes, the report button does work, I've used it a few times for spam. There was a really creepy thing on BP so I sent an email explaining and they banned this person and sent me a confirmation email so I'm glad there are more moderators on BP bc trolls have a harder time pestering us.
Load More Replies...Please please please stop randomly reloading the page. It’s not fun when you’re on #67 of the post which contains #100 pictures. And the format also changes based on the points. It’s annoying.
Sometimes I accidentally click the profiles of other pandas. I lose where I am in the post. It would be much better if it can be fixed.
Up the character limits. Sometimes you're actually having an interesting conversation and have to end up splitting your responses into multiple posts or you have to delete a lot of your response to fit the limit. This isn't twitter. I understand limitations to keep people from spamming with 40 page essays, but the whole point of this site to make comments and add to conversations. Can we please lift the limits to a reasonable amount??
The downvote ban system is stupid. Make downvotes actually mean dislikes and not a report button. Make the report button the report button. Stop being so tight with censorship. How is “porn” not censored but “pàwn” is?! This is an internet site, not an elementary school monitored site. When I delete a comment, I want it FULLY deleted. I don’t want to get banned for a deleted comment because people kept downvoting it because “It was already downvoted so it must be bad!”. And I don’t want to be punished for a comment that already got me in trouble!
My school used to block Slope Game. Unblocked now tho
Load More Replies...Please stop the questions. So many repeat or are just dumb, should relate to a person's interests.
That every single time you change your profile picture or account bio. Bored Panda staff don’t have approve your account again over and over each time. I can’t comment cuz I just did that.
People (myself included) have been talking about the downvote system for a while, and it keeps emerging as a big issue users have, but BP doesn't seem to listen... :(
Sadly BoredPanda doesn’t seem to listen to their users. There also never used to be such horrible censorship on this website either. However, if we mention it in the comments or an email nothing is done.
Load More Replies...I would want an ability to search users. I mainly just want to use it to make use someone doesn't have the same user as the one I'm going to put.
There is a website - Pro Football Talk - which keeps a separate tally for the up and down votes. Some comments are downvoted dozens of times. It’s too bad that after decades of Soviet occupation these folks don't respect free speech
People (myself included) have been talking about the downvote system for a while, and it keeps emerging as a big issue users have, but BP doesn't seem to listen... :(
Sadly BoredPanda doesn’t seem to listen to their users. There also never used to be such horrible censorship on this website either. However, if we mention it in the comments or an email nothing is done.
Load More Replies...I would want an ability to search users. I mainly just want to use it to make use someone doesn't have the same user as the one I'm going to put.
There is a website - Pro Football Talk - which keeps a separate tally for the up and down votes. Some comments are downvoted dozens of times. It’s too bad that after decades of Soviet occupation these folks don't respect free speech
