Downvotes can be useful in certain contexts, like when you visit a thread and are looking for factual information, such as the answer to a tech question. I don’t want to accidentally follow someone’s bad advice because the bad advice didn’t have any downvotes nor any responses as to why it was wrong.
It’s not perfect, but voting is a quick, often effective method of fact checking.
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Without downvotes, you get Twitter where even obvious rage bait drowns out everything. Downvotes aren’t perfect, but they’re much better than not having them.
SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Microblogs and threaded forums are completely different platforms with completely different issues