• TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m of the opinion that downvotes are useful for self moderation of troll/off-topic comments or posts.

    People also use it as a disagree button. That use doesn’t bother me personally but I see a lot of users get upset about having a negative score on a comment.

    I think the best method is to keep the votes and either hide the score total or to not visibly show any score that’s less than 1

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        3 months ago

        From what I can see, people will downvote shitposts even if they agree with it. But the downvote is used as the disagree button the majority of the time.

        I will upvote any comment that seems to be made in good faith but I don’t have any illusions of that being how the majority of the network uses their votes. I think a higher percentage of people use their vote that way compared to Reddit but not much to make a difference.

        That’s why I suggested hiding votes entirely. I think that would be unpopular because people like the dopamine hit of seeing your comment score go up, and so my compromise was to only hide 0 or negative scores.