Did anyone else have the experience that two downvotes on Reddit hurt more than the good feeling from getting100 upvotes? Or was that just me?

  • wiredfire@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I like the idea of Downvotes. The principle was a good one but it neglected to consider that people, on the whole, don’t look at vote buttons as up vote = relevant content downvote = irrelevant (their original intention, essentially crowdsourcing moderation / content quality control). Rather they look at them as agree / disagree, like / dislike.

    I’m the end I think they hurt the conversation. People can just downvote with ease instead of having to put the effort in the say something, leaving that space for those who had a strong enough drive to be snippy or nasty to full it.

    Upvote only still allows a mark of quality / relevance from the community without making it so divisive.

    • 777@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I like the Hacker News compromise - you have downvotes only after your account is a certain age and karma, and you can’t downvote responses to your comments.