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I always thought the little [-] button downvoted!

• y03a 9y ago
  HA! That made me think of what might be an interesting feature on a forum, if the parent gets downvoted, all the children do as well. Might prevent feeding trolls or expanding off-topic conversations.
  • duskwuff 9y ago
    Would also punish users for posting rebuttals to controversial or factually incorrect posts. I feel like that's a net negative.
    • abraae 9y ago
      Perhaps an additional feature to explicitly mark your post as "rebuttal"? Then only the non-rebuttals would inherit the downvote?
      • duskwuff 9y ago
        And why would users not simply mark all of their posts as rebuttals? There'd be no downside.
        • abraae 9y ago
          Because rebutting something that was subsequently upvoted would incur a downvote!
    • brokenmachine 9y ago
      That's sort of what happens on reddit. Often I feel it's not worth replying to obviously wrong stuff because it'll just get downvoted so low that nobody's likely to see my eloquent and carefully-worded rebuttal anyway.