Comment on X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit

• krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s legitimate uses for downvotes but you seem to take issue with people using it to express disagreement. My question is why does that bother you? There’s lots of reasons why that could happen, some valid and some not. Disagreement isn’t usually supposed to signal that you’re a piece of shit or however else you seem to be interpreting it. It just means the people who read your comment don’t share your view but you don’t even know who they are so who cares. It’s a minor thing. It’s equivalent to telling a joke to your friends and no one laughs. Big fucking deal, life goes on.

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  • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because if downvotes are used to express disagreement then all it does is sort by “things most people agree on.” Is that how most forums and communities should operate to you? Do you believe that’s how we should sort things? If so then I simply disagree with that notion and there’s not much more to say. If you don’t, then there’s your answer.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m going to jump in and say that the real question isn’t “is the disagree button bad” the real question is, “is the disagree button worse than not having it”?

      I don’t use downvote to disagree. I know some people do. But on Lemmy I’ve seen so many times awful comments with positive up notes bc no o e is downloading and hiding them

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      • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not really the question either. The question is “why do we have a downvote button and what do we hope it accomplishes?”

        If your goal is to have an agree/disagree button, then power to you because that is how it is used. But a lot of people, not just myself, don’t want that.

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    • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t have a strong opinion on whether or not downvotes should be used to signal disagreement but I don’t think there’s much point in debating that because that’s how they are used. It seems like the only options are coming to terms with that or not using sites that have the option to downvote. I really don’t think it’s that big of a deal though. If someone doesn’t know how to disagree with others without it ruining their day then they need to learn that skill anyway.

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      • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s totally worth debating it because we could simply not have downvotes or at least hide vote scores. That changes people’s behavior demonstrably.

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