You can’t downvote me even if you wanted to! MY MASTER PLAN IS FINALLY COMPLETE!
Now I will have the most downvoted post in the history of this site FOREVER!
You can’t downvote me even if you wanted to! MY MASTER PLAN IS FINALLY COMPLETE!
Now I will have the most downvoted post in the history of this site FOREVER!
just saw your edit, figured I'd respond sorry if I'm being annoying, it's an interesting discussion
I'd argue this is the strength of removing the downvote, because downvotes can mean anything, but a comment condemning a post for whatever it is to be condemned for is far sharper and more pointed a weapon
It's not combatting liberalism to downvote a liberal post, but to analyze it and shred it apart in front of the audience
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It's true it would feed them, however: 1) this is chapo, the land that loves trolling trolls back 2) that loops us back to the mods not being afraid to ban people for trolling, so the hypothetical troll will (probably) still be stopped in around the same amount of time.
Plus its not like downvotes ever dissuade trolls either, and there's not much difference between a post with -3 and a post with no upvotes in the ranking
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Hmm, that's a good point.
My question now is, can we solve that problem without putting the downvote back? How?
maybe downvotes still exist but are hidden to everyone but mods, that way they can still spot egregious takes or lack of community support? So I guess, instead of a downvote, it's more of a "I find this sus" button. Like a lesser report button
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I'm sure our beautiful devs could figure something out
@ScreamoBMO @Beatnik (if this isn't something either of you know about pls pass it on to the team 🙏)