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Downvotes = “I disagree” or “this is bad and you should feel bad”? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I think I’ve settled on the latter. Disagreement is maybe best communicated by the absence of an upvote? And downvotes work best when they signal something that is just off base, and while not reportable, is not appreciated at a broad cultural level.

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[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh I still like downvotes and find myself just not enjoying beehaw as much without them. I mostly just don't get the moral panic over having a disagree button more than anything.

[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Moral panic? What? It's about healthy community dialogue and slightly how downvotes impacts the psyche.
If someone tells you why they dislike something you like, you're not doing anyone a favor by downvoting it.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are ignoring how trolls operate in reality though. THey explicitly use "just having an opinion" as cover for shitting up a forum. Look up "sealioning."

But again, this is my opinion. People are far too concerned about the downvote button. And the fact that the above, completely respectful but seemingly controversial opinion already has downvotes kind of proves my point.

[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be useful if people actually used it to burrow trolls, sealions and irrelevant comments as intended, but as I've seen people can't be trusted with that because as you say: It becomes a "disagree" instead, that targets everything that people disagree with. It gets inane on political topics where useless comments for the right tribe gets immensely upvoted. "Covfefe" Yes, very informative. There could be alternate vote for agreement, funny, or troll mark.

[–] sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There could be alternate vote for agreement, funny, or troll mark.

Yeah I like this, definitely a troll button next to the vote buttons would be really useful for users to self-moderate comments