Downvotes

Glitch

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Auspice

Wolfs

Maybe the same thing should be done for upvotes. Are either really needed, when you think about it?

surreality

Up is a little more handy, I think. Up probably cuts down on a lot of 'me, too!' spam/filler.

Glitch

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Three-Eyed Crow

@surreality
Me too! Though, for serious, they are a handy for 'This is sensible and articulate but I don't have anything further to add'.

I don't think they're 'needed,' per se, but people are way less weird about them than downvotes, so they seem harmless, whereas downvotes were at times annoying.

Arkandel

@Three-Eyed-Crow I think downvotes would have worked better if their source was visible.

As it was it turned into passive-aggressive snarking for some users, anonymously expressing their discontent over someone else' continued existence.

Wolfs

I guess I can see that POV, and if people were just using downvotes to sort of anonymously troll then that becomes a problem. It'd cut down on some spam just to see who's upvoting instead of a bunch of +1s all over the place quoting the same thing over and over (posting "me toos" like some braindead AOLer).

Three-Eyed Crow

@Arkandel said in Downvotes:

@Three-Eyed-Crow I think downvotes would have worked better if their source was visible.

Yeah. It's hard to tell, because they weren't visible to everyone for very long, but I did prefer it that way.

As much as I enjoyed serial-downvoting @Anonymous (no regrets, every post of theirs was some damn nonsense) I will not miss them.

Arkandel

@Three-Eyed-Crow Aside from the systemic benefits I just think we should have the (very minimal) courage of our own convictions. If I vote something you say down I should do it openly so that you at least have the option to go 'hey dude, which part of don't kick puppies did you disagree with?'.