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I respectfully doubt it, since YouToube and many news site comment sections allow up and down voting. And they are still generally dumpster fires. My vote goes
by noizejoy 6y ago
I respectfully doubt it, since YouToube and many news site comment sections allow up and down voting. And they are still generally dumpster fires.
My vote goes towards quality moderation being the key difference maker in the quality of discourse.
- chrisco255 6y agoThe downvote on YouTube comments does nothing.
- burlesona 6y agoThat’s a good point, I hadn’t thought of YouTube. FWIW I also understand how valuable moderation is and I think it is more impactful than downvoting. I just had never considered before that downvoting was, at least potentially, a valuable tool to increase civility.