I've made the argument several times. Downvotes are abused by spergs and alts. Reddit uses downvotes and it's a shithole. /pol/ and the rest of 4chan have never used up or downvotes, and they're fine, probably better in a lot of ways than voat or poal.
The only people who want/need downvotes are fags. Upvotes bring popular stuff to the top, then you just ignore the rest if you want. See something you don't like? Close your nigger eyes.
"REEEEE BUT I WANNA DOWNVOTE IT SO PPL KEN SEE I DUN LIKE IT!!!"
Holy, what a little girl.
"It's analytical and metrical and numbers and I'm a smart person"
Lol, what a midwit.
Downvotes are abused
Completely agree that some design consideration is needed for abuse of the feature.
/pol/ and the rest of 4chan have never used up or downvotes
4chan is also anonymous while poal/voat etc are only pseudo-anonymous. Apples and oranges.
The only people who want/need downvotes are fags.
"Voat man bad!"
Upvotes bring popular stuff to the top, then you just ignore the rest if you want.
Are there measures in place to prevent sock accounts from upvoting content to the top? If not, downvotes are important.
See something you don't like? Close your nigger eyes.
Which is the appropriate response, comments against the content or silence? Let me know when you've made up your mind.
[REE you don't need the ability to show your dissent, peasant]
Are you afraid of downvotes?
[the word "metrics" triggers me]
You should probably look up what it means.
Nice reddit format.
Idk why you implied I was saying either or. Comment if you want to argue, ignore if it's a troll and/or you don't want to read it.
It's shit simple. Were boat users really this autistic? Do you really need a negative number next to someone's post to help you think?
As far as pol being "fully anonymous", that's completely irrelevant to the upvote/downvote system.
As far as metrics, I don't give a fuck. It's autistic as absolute shit to bring up metrics in this context, as if this site is some important database or whatever, and not just a place for autistic people to say the word "nigger" to slightly more autistic people.
As far as I'm concerned it's very, very simple.
It's shit simple. Were [voat] users really this autistic? Do you really need a negative number next to someone's post to help you think?
If you see a fakenews CNN article with 100 upvotes seconds after it is posted, yes, it is helpful to easily visually identify forum sliding by the users that have downvoted the content. It might not appear as "spam" but it is nonetheless obstructive.
As far as pol being "fully anonymous", that's completely irrelevant to the upvote/downvote system
Username continuity is why the system is important here but not at 4chan.
As far as I'm concerned it's very, very simple.
OK.
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