> If someone has a bad take, downvote them. Ironically, this is the most reddit sentence I’ve ever read. To add more substance and avoid be-redditting this th

> If someone has a bad take, downvote them. Ironically, this is the most reddit sentence I’ve ever read. To add more substance and avoid be-redditting this thread even further: I think the crucial difference in a good forum culture is that “bad takes” aren’t reflexively buried - they’re dismantled, disproven, and alternatives are submitted. That way anyone else with similar “bad takes” is guided to a better POV. This is actually productive. Downvotes are for irrelevant material, which isn’t productive.