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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 trol

by 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.