> “We find that negative feedback leads to significant behavioural changes that are detrimental to the community,” I really hope the sites that have downvotes

> “We find that negative feedback leads to significant behavioural changes that are detrimental to the community,” I really hope the sites that have downvotes don't take this to heart. There are massive benefits that the authors completely overlooked. It allows the community to rapidly bury garbage content, and because of this, the pool of potentially good content (with few upvotes) is much smaller and less daunting for the users to sift through, which allows more good content to rise to the top.