If you downvote you should be forced to reply, and if you don't, the downvote goes away.
Why, when people post deliberate downvote bait? Just another avenue of abuse..
Case in point - downvoted my above comment because he thinks it is dumb (most likely out of the reasons he gave) as he states here - https://poal.co/s/AskPoal/139002/ca39ef4e-ca20-47e8-8bf0-a391d7fe290c#cmnts
If you have to reply when you downvote, you can't just blanket downvote like he claims to do.
You poor thing. Are you ok? Were you triggered?
Someone get this "man" a blanket! NOW!
Suppose we are differing in level of "care about getting a downvote."
You demand an explanation like a diva. I really don't give a flying fuck.
Everything can and will be abused. My thinking is if you require a reply it would at least spur discussion instead of just the random downvoting. When I get downvoted elsewhere, I'd love to know why they downvoted my comment. Poal is one of the few where you can know who downvoted you if you interact enough with the site. I think there's too many people who hide behind the anonymity downvoting gives them.
Ya know what, I think you hit on something. I'm going to try to voluntarily comment on posts that I down-vote, explaining why I did so. I wonder how that will work out...
(post is archived)