When Gab had down voting, it would cost you one karma point to downvote someone and I believe you only were allowed 10 downvotes per hour. Having a cost to downvoting makes people more responsible with the downvote button.
I'm honestly not against this idea. I've argued against it in the past but its not the worst idea.
Gab had downvoting?
So were they once a news aggregator or always a microblog platform?
Gab had downvoting?
Yes. The format was similar to Poal and Voat, except they had twitter like commenting with only one level of indent. Since they just emulate Twitter now, I don't regularly go there anymore. It kinda pissed me off that they took away downvoting and I even suspect they are even pushing unsavory comments out of the mainline comment stream.
Interesting. Thank you.
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