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So @AOU and I have been talking and he just came up with an idea. We have been discussing it for a few minutes today and we thought we would share it with you guys and get your input. 1. A page where you can see a list of the downvotes on your posts and another for comments (Level 6 and up) 2. A page where you can see a list of all downvotes that have been cast on the site (Red Barons and up) So let us know what you think.

So and I have been talking and he just came up with an idea. We have been discussing it for a few minutes today and we thought we would share it with you guys and get your input.

  1. A page where you can see a list of the downvotes on your posts and another for comments (Level 6 and up)

  2. A page where you can see a list of all downvotes that have been cast on the site (Red Barons and up)

So let us know what you think.

Idea 1 & 2 are good
Idea 1 & 2 are bad
Idea 1 is good & idea 2 is bad
Idea 1 is bad & idea 2 is good
Fuck You!

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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

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).

[–] • 2 pts

I guess that makes sense. You can only crack down on downvotes so much before there's no point in having them at all.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

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.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

we believe the down vote is not a "I disagree button".

Believe it as hard as you want, won't make it become true.