• BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I agree with that and I upvoted you, I don’t understand the downvote mentality, either you upvote or you don’t do anything, downvote should simply not exists.

    • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I wholeheartedly disagree. Downvotes are my favorite part of this kind of comment system. I know that, per the rules, “downvotes aren’t for disagreement”, but most people don’t respect that and I think it’s asinine. Both kinds of votes are a valuable way of contributing to a discussion without having to spend the time and effort to write a comment.

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        2 months ago

        Except for the fact that downvotes hide those comments. So all you are doing is creating an echo chamber where everyone agrees or gets removed from discourse.

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      2 months ago

      Wasn’t me. But downvotes are great when used appropriately. We want shit that isn’t worth reading to get filtered to the bottom. A joke that isn’t worth reading. Off topic shit that isn’t a relevant tangent. Spam. Uncalled for rudeness.

      But that shouldn’t mean every opinion that disagrees with your own.

      Maybe downvotes should be limited. I don’t know that there’s a good technical way to fix this issue.