Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy

• npdean@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, downvotes are more important than upvotes

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  • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I legitimately don’t even know why someone might think this.

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    • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Disagreements are more important than agreements, otherwise it just forms echo chambers

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      • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can disagree without a downvote option.

        It’s more constructive to formulate a response for disagreement anyway.

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I agree, except we should leave the basic mechanic and just make it a placebo.

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  • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why? I don’t see a benefit to the button at all. Even being able to register disapproval is better done via comment, anyway, and having to articulate it makes you far more likely to self-reflect and temper yourself than if you can just downvote every comment in a thread

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