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So over the past few days I have noticed and involved in a bit of drama with people using the downvote button as and I don't like you button or an I disagree button. This really saddens me. I don't like seeing it. I think the downvote button should be for spam or things that are irrelevant. Thats what I think we should use it for. If you disagree make an argument. If you just hate a user why not ignore them or even block them. Please don't try to censor them. Everyone here deserves to have free speech. Even the people you don't like. Even the people you disagree with. Without free speech, what do we have? Without it we have fallen. I don't accept that we have fallen. I think we have ascended to a point where everyone has a voice. No matter what their opinion. The free market of ideas will show what are the best ideas. Don't let yourself fall into the habit of trying to censor ideas you don't like your arguments will do that better than any vote could.

So over the past few days I have noticed and involved in a bit of drama with people using the downvote button as and I don't like you button or an I disagree button. This really saddens me. I don't like seeing it. I think the downvote button should be for spam or things that are irrelevant. Thats what I think we should use it for. If you disagree make an argument. If you just hate a user why not ignore them or even block them. Please don't try to censor them. Everyone here deserves to have free speech. Even the people you don't like. Even the people you disagree with. Without free speech, what do we have? Without it we have fallen. I don't accept that we have fallen. I think we have ascended to a point where everyone has a voice. No matter what their opinion. The free market of ideas will show what are the best ideas. Don't let yourself fall into the habit of trying to censor ideas you don't like your arguments will do that better than any vote could.

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[–] • 5 pts

This is not actually a bad idea.

[–] • 5 pts

We can even vote on what to call it. My submission is "Fuck Off, Faggot."

[–] • 4 pts

I like this idea a lot, @AOU what do you think?

[–] • 4 pts (edited )

Oh, I can see the Announcement post now.

:-D

Edit: Upon further reflection:

I was reminded of a routine by a standup comic from many years ago. To paraphrase, he jokingly advocated for automobile drivers to be issues dart guns that fires suction-cup arrows which could only be removed by the police. If you saw someone driving like an asshole you shot their car with an arrow. When the cops saw a car with 10 arrows stuck to it they issued the driver a ticket for being a dick.

We could do something like that here. If a user gets 10 (or some arbitrary number) of Fuck Off Faggot votes, their account could be marked with a FAGGOT flair for a period of time. NO censoring of speech, just mockery from their peers.

[–] • 1 pt

Sounds good to me too. Let’s put it in the todo list. 😉

[–] • 0 pt

look how @jsac and crew are dowmvoting me.

I wanna participate here j but fuck that pedo bitch @jsac

[–] • 0 pt

go back to voat dick breath. no one wants u and your shitposting faggot crew here... the downvotes speak volumes....