Lol our comments serve the purpose in us communicating with each other. If downvotes don't do anything then what's the point of them? If they don't filter shit down (suppressing the posts), then they're worthless.
The way this site seems to work, upvotes bring stuff closer to the top. So if you don't upvote something, it will just get passed over by stuff that's more popular.
But, it won't get driven down arbitrarily just because a bunch of spergs and alts downvoted the fuck out of it.
What if votes were weighted? So downvotes from us newbies or known shills have less effect than a downvote from AOU. That way everyone's voice can be considered heard (like I said before, some posts aren't worth the read) but faggots cant sway things
Downvotes also serve the purpose of communicating with others. It saying, hey we read this (hopefully...or know from past experiences OP is a retard) and we thought it deserved a downvote. Meaning it was worse than just being neutral and not voting.
Of course shills can start a downvote brigade and make people think the OP is retarded, but I don't think it should necessarily dictate where it is in line (as far as posts) And people should be willing to think for themselves enough to ignore downvote brigades.
How about just think for yourself when reading a post with or without a number next to it?
That's what I'm saying...people need to think for themselves regardless of whether the number is negative or not. Obviously I dont know what the solution is (to something I see as a problem) but I just dont like the idea of discouraging people from downvoting.
And the same thing could be said for upvote brigades. I'm assuming it really isnt that hard for one person to have a dozen accounts on this site, what's stopping them from just upvoting a bunch of their retarded comments?
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