isnt this what the report button is for?
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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Hey Gang,
I'm seeing an uptick in downvoting to, I presume, express displeasure. Please don't. If a topic doesn't speak or appeal to you, move along, please don't downvote it. Please use the downvote button for content that doesn't belong here because it is inappropriate.
Thank you and game on!
You can wish for whatever you want but people are going to do what they intuitively feel like doing.
Seems there should be a new voting system. Up and down for agree/disagree, and flags for inappropriate content that doesn't require explanation and submitting a report. Submitting too many flags that turn out to be nothing mutes the user.
No, I enjoy seeing the number go down when I dislike a user or their comment
here, have a downboat
Thank you!
Some people tend to downvote anything they don't explicitly want to upvote because of app settings using votes to take it out of their feed later. I was definitely guilty of doing this with Reddit is Fun, and it's especially bad when your communities are updating/contributing at a much slower rate than late-stage Reddit.
I'm totally with you on this one - downvote is not meant as a "I disagree" button, but it is used that way which created the famous Reddit "hive mind" problem. So this has been a pretty peeve of mine for years. It is already creating the same problem here.
But unfortunately, we're tilting at windmills on this case, so I think we will just have to accept that this is the way it's going to be.