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It seems that downvotes would definitely decrease - I would bet that a large portion of them would not have been made in public. If nothing else it might incre
by breily 18y ago
It seems that downvotes would definitely decrease - I would bet that a large portion of them would not have been made in public. If nothing else it might increase the number of replies to a post - It would be slightly embarrassing to see your name as one of the downvoters if you didn't also reply to the post.
Enabling downvotes on submissions could also be interesting - maybe to downvote a submission you have to comment about it or about why you downvoted it. Revealing voting could add an additional feature to the site - if we see that someone who likes the same stuff voted something up, then we'll probably read it.
- wumi 18y agoI think the general attitude here, is to provide the functionality to a) disagree and to b) bury bad content. In those separate issues, transparency becomes an issue, particularly with the downvote. I'm definitely in favor of promoting transparency in order to disagree or bury bad content.