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I'm interested/curious to see how a system where you can only downvote would behave. I think users would be much more interested to only downvote, if they coul
by jokoon 5y ago
I'm interested/curious to see how a system where you can only downvote would behave.
I think users would be much more interested to only downvote, if they could.
The front page would only show items that were not downvoted. Of course if would also be possible to see which posts were the most downvoted.
- peytn 5y agoThat’s basically Wikipedia minus the most downvoted view part.
- jhbadger 5y agoI don't think that would work, because it is hard to imagine anything that somebody wouldn't dislike. You see it on Youtube, where even a video getting hundreds/thousands of likes gets a few dozen downvotes.
- Sergiu37 5y agoMy guess is that will bring to the top the most uninteresting stuff that novody even cares about to downvote. Also this might look like the new section as eventually someone will downvote so the new ones will be at the top in the first phase.
- geraltofrivia 5y agoIt might happen that folks downvote things even if they like it, just because its the only interaction possible. From what little I understand of content reception, the drive to interact triumphs the drive to curate/(give your opinion for the collective good, for the lack of a better word). In a few weeks the website would then introduce a ‘controversial’ or ‘worst’ sorting and ironic downvoting would become mainstream till the devs give in and treat the downvote as an upvote, or introduce both downvote and upvote (wherein imo they’d stand a chance of losing their userbase).
- madeofpalk 5y agoSomeone once told me an intense sense of wanting to be involved and a staggering lack of something to add
- stared 5y agoSounds like r/RoastMe.