Exactly. I used to upvote everything interesting I read. If it was pointless, immature or poorly conceived, or the tenth post about the same story, I would down vote that shit. If it was spam, report it as spam.
Also this shit of mods arbitrarily moving peoples post to another sub is utter faggotry.
The main thing for me is the admins lack of a life... it makes me sad to think about.
the website will be fine with 20 extra posts in whatever. No one cares.
Can't use downvotes to vote things down. Can't post whatever to /s/whatever. Can't use pings to ping people.
While braindead sycophants cheer and beg for more of the same. Because supporting a bully makes them feel special and safe.
Yeah, they want everyone to be 'polite to each other', even if it means you can't downvote someone bc they won't argue their point and just resort to 'Waah, i'm not replying to you any more' . Bunch of pansies - that will get streamrolled by the next kike agenda cause they have no moral fortitude to downvote and say 'BS, it's da joo-s - get away from me satan !!"
If natural voting habits were allowed, youd see many more upvotes. youd see many more downvotes from low IQ people in place of rebuttal. But since downvotes are not allowed, the lack of an upvote has to suffice. Since no ones getting downvoted, no one tries to post content people want to see more no one tries to downvote brigade instead of using their brain, so the participation remains extremely low so low IQ morons and actual kikes are powerless and rage, and the overall level of discussion rises above "you're a jew!"as everyone looks at shit they would rather downvote. and that's good
You will occasionally see posts with lots of upvotes, thats what would be rising to the top of the pile were we downvoting the garbage. But nah, it all kinda just stagnates instead. Its the culture. reflecting the actual consensus
Edit: OMG YOU DOWNVOTED ME BECAUSE YOU ARE MAD LOL
Truth hurts baby... 17000 to go...lol
Nope, utter bs. i've rebutted several posts/ comments, just to have replies with variations of 'i dont believe this conversation is in good faith - therefore i wont be responding', to the most recent ' ... you just don't get it - i'm not wasting my time with you anymore'. Refusing to answer questions (showing to me at least - they lack ability to substantiate or prove their point), while claiming some type of moral superiority of why they will not continue to entertain what they see as ' rhetorical questioning' ... Bunch of dishonest cucks claiming 'its all about optics' ....
EDIT: Oh you edited out your bit of 'people having to engage and use rebuttal instead of just downvoting something they disagree with). I've noticed that here alot too, comments using the edit function to delete things they get called out about (well thats my experience here) or using it to change the theme of what they're saying after the fact. Thats why i just add an edit at the bottom and leave my original comment unchanged...
no one tries to downvote brigade instead of using their brain
That's why I think downvotes should come with a reply. Your downvote goes into a pending status and you have an hour to reply. If you don't reply, the downvote doesn't happen. To counter just random text and name calling on the reply, the account downvoted can contest it to the sub's mods.
That's way too much checks and controls to handle for the server and people moderating subs
Imagine if you had to validate every post with a downvote in a q sub....
Besides, some subs are owned by "system", there are no humans moderating anything, like s/news for instance if memory serves
That’s totally inaccurate.
When something doesn’t get downvoted nor upvoted, it will just slide down the new queue never to be seen again (unless you scroll down enough).
When something gets upvoted it doesn’t mean it’s appreciated. It means the topic was relevant and informative. I’ve seen tons of users upvoting things they don’t really like but do so the content remains diverse enough. What most newcomers do is flood post memes and screenshots. It gets upvoted by the same users who turned voat into a mess. So blaming the downvote for it is incorrect. If you want to see more diverse content in all/hot, you guys should upvote more.
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