Downvoting appeals to the little tyrants--the powerless wannabe autoritarians on the left. It allows them to 'punish' wrongthink in their own little way. Clicking that downvote button gets the dopamine flowing for them. It's a toxic system that engenders negative feelings with few upsides. I've long advocated for the removal of the downvote feature back when I was on reddit a long, long time ago, which was unsurprisingly met with a lot of hostility and downvotes. Glad to see Poal doing it right. I'd have removed the downvote button altogether, but I guess it serves the purpose of letting everyone know who the shills are since downvotes are public.
I never did reddit but that's because I was always fucking around on LiveLeak and didn't even know reddit existed. Went from LL to Voat then to here and I missed the golden years of Voat but was there a couple years before Putt decided to close it down. I'm thankful for PMYB and AOU for making this place though. People are good here not too much kikery.
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