So what's the real life equivalent of an up vote button? Or of writing something then hours later a person responds and you get a flag telling you you were responded to?
I don't get comparing this to real life to justify that the downvote feature sucks.
And if it's such a damn problem why even have it? Or at least why not state what it's intended purpose is?
It's a spergy way to get out of arguing. You have a problem with something someone says but instead of addressing it or ignoring it, you add a gay -1 next to the post.
Worst case is also some fags and their 90 alts mass downvote your entire comment history because you said Trump is zogged.
Ok then why have the button at all?
Dunno, guess it's used as a "report spam"-esque button.
I don’t think anyone is in favor of downvote spamming with alts. Hell, even at voat people got banned for that
On voat there was a problem with extra salty users. At a certain point you could have so many upvotes that you could spam downvotes for 5k posts straight and your ratio wouldn’t even break even. I think on voat I had like 8k posts upvoted and 1000 downvoted or something. Anyways, some people would get extra mad at you if you attacked a sacred cow of theirs like trump (especially before the election shit) or Christianity and they would literally keep your post history opened in a second window and refresh it once every few hours and just downvote spam your entire history. Somebody did this to me for 5 days straight and I know of people who had it done by 2 people or just one guy on 2 devices permanently for months. Just every comment started with 0,-2. It was gay as fuck.
I got unbanned for having an alt. True story.
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