I do like the arrows.

I do not like the arrows.

I do not like them.

a Power Pop Beat Combo I have yet to hear?

Oh my sides.

here's The Arrows and the original of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"

I find annoying...though i have a lot of respct for Raymond van Barneveld.

I think they make it all too easy to drive-by slap a post.

Conversely, I think the up arrow is actually helpful, for where someone expresses an opinion and I don't have much to add beyond "Me too". But given the scope for mischief with the down arrow, I can see the case for their removal entirely.

You really should clarify whether you mean the common European pear (Pyrus communis) or P. boissieriana, which is native to the Kopet Dag region of the Turkmenistan-Iranian border. The distinction is an essential one, because...

[Hooked off sharpish]

but not the down arrows. How do I vote?

I think they're great.
I like being able to indicate I like or dislike something without having to add a "What he said" type comment.
Sometimes I just don't have anything more to add.
I also think that should held to keep threads a bit more compact without the addition of simple agreement or dissent.
If you want to keep typing those short comments, just carry on.

... poll functionality gives them a potential new lease of life, and it would be great to see this explored further, polling favourite tracks off albums, favourite Martin Scorsese films, etc. I do like a poll, me.

However, I sometimes think they're deployed in a mean and nasty way.

do we have arrows now?

*gets coat*

expect for the wilful and childish negging of anything Bargepole posts.

Because I just knew this kind of thing (ie offence taken, paranoia triggered etc)could happen.

And it did. Smuggitty old me.

Anyway, I post here not to add my two'pennorth to the voting buttons debate (even though I just have) but rather to praise to the skies your user picture up in the top right corner.

Is that Ingrid Pitt? She's a corker and no mistake! Lovely.

get rid - they've just caused no end of bickering.

Completely at odds with The Word`s "No Star Rating" stand.

... useless in practice.

for those posts for which the only valid reply would be "meh."

This isn't Facebook you know.

I´m innocent, of course.