You can’t downvote me even if you wanted to! MY MASTER PLAN IS FINALLY COMPLETE!
Now I will have the most downvoted post in the history of this site FOREVER!
MUAHAHAHAHAHA
Edit: to elaborate further, this change artificially eliminates negativity. Hiding something doesn’t make it go away, and we shouldn’t force people to pretend to like things they don’t. That’s like being forced to smile as a cashier.
just saw your edit, figured I’d respond sorry if I’m being annoying, it’s an interesting discussion
I’d argue this is the strength of removing the downvote, because downvotes can mean anything, but a comment condemning a post for whatever it is to be condemned for is far sharper and more pointed a weapon
It’s not combatting liberalism to downvote a liberal post, but to analyze it and shred it apart in front of the audience
It’s true it would feed them, however: 1) this is chapo, the land that loves trolling trolls back 2) that loops us back to the mods not being afraid to ban people for trolling, so the hypothetical troll will (probably) still be stopped in around the same amount of time.
Plus its not like downvotes ever dissuade trolls either, and there’s not much difference between a post with -3 and a post with no upvotes in the ranking
