I've tried sites with no downvote and they're really annoying. Rather than being able to downvote bad posts, you're relegated to passive-aggressively ignoring them.
You just described Poal then.
From the user guide: https://poal.co/userguide
It says:
At Poal, we believe the down vote is not a "I disagree button".
We'd rather engage in a counter argument with the post/comment we disagree with, and use down votes for spam (you can report to admins) and off topic trolls.
Also note that your downvotes are public here, which isn't such a big deal. The point I've been trying to make is that if they don't want downvotes they should just remove the button rather than act butthurt about downvotes or have some algorithm that resets your account if you do it too much (which they have).
I guess that makes sense. You can only crack down on downvotes so much before there's no point in having them at all.
We had some mudslime prick in here one day spewing on about how Mohammad is going to save us all and that white people need to act more like jews. I downloaded each of his spam-posts and got called a faggot by a bunch of people and got a talking to by the admins. Apparently I almost triggered an algorithm to label my account with a bad word or some shit.
Other that this faggot idea about downvoting, this site is great and the admins are very cool.
we believe the down vote is not a "I disagree button".
Believe it as hard as you want, won't make it become true.
LITERALLY LIKE FACEBOOK.
TBH A quiet downvote is also a passive-aggressive move.
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