Maybe You didnt hear me. I said Id RATHER. I prefer to use the downvote in some instances.
There should be no reason to miss the downvote. Typing a response everytime you disagree is better.
I DISAGREE
Hey goy it’s better if you don’t have guns
Hey goy it’s better if you dont use that word.
Hey goy it’s better if you don’t use that button
No.
Nobody’s taking anybody’s free speech away. Am I taking someone’s free speech away if I promote somebody else’s comment with an upvote? Do you understand how upvoting works? Why is it okay to upvote then?
The idea is to encourage legitimate conversation and maximum engagement by real, non shill, users.
If you want a site that ponders to shills, try Reddit.
If you dont agree with me you love shills and reddit
Does that pass as a legitimate argument?
"Let shills run the platform"
Is that your argument?
Maybe not you, but shills abuse it.
So a group of 5 shills can censor 1 persons message, indefinitely, like on Voat.
Do your part and support the silencing of shill vote brigaders.
>shill
You mean troll? We used the downvote to manage trolls. Downvotes help you tell who is an asshole. The only people who were chronicly brigaded on voat were pedophiles and people commenting obscene abusive shit.
The people here who are bullied the most are the Qanons. Is this system working for them?
People post Q abuse on their sub and they cant vote it down. So in the end, the moderators just banned a bunch of people off their sub. Is that free speech?
Frankly the front page of posts is just too sluggish, and I finally figured out why. No downvoting.
On posts I used to read the comments with the most downvotes before reading the comments in the middle. Sometimes it’s where the best comments are. Its not like people cant read a downvoted comment.
There are lots of different ways to deal with bad actors while still preserving the downvote. You could change the weight of a downvote. You could allow people to order posts and comments with or without downvotes. You could ration downvotes per account or ration downvotes directed a a specific user.
At the end of the day, downvotes are really useful to me, and this site would be better with them. I feel hamstrung. I feel like my free speech is hindered by lack of downvote.
YOU argued to me that Im really much better off with no downvotes cuz reasons. That I find flimsy. Im not. It sucks. I am putting up with it.
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