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If you remove downvote, people will start to use 'flag' to censor people and you won't be able to trust it anymore. I think leaving the buttons but just separat
by po 15y ago
If you remove downvote, people will start to use 'flag' to censor people and you won't be able to trust it anymore. I think leaving the buttons but just separating the calculations is enough:
mostly upvotes: keep it
mostly downvotes: drop it, its junk; the community has spoken
many mixed up/down votes: controversial topic, maybe delay the appearance of reply links?
few votes: boring, maybe sort it lower
- llambda 15y agoThe problem is that downvotes are used as a way of disagreeing with a comment. But what would be more productive and worthwhile is when there's differing perspectives there's a dialogue. Downvotes should be used to filter spam and other cruft but not differences of opinion.