downvoting everything i disagree with seems excessive and unhealthy, considering i can just ignore and move on. Beehaw doesn’t have downvotes at all, reasoning that you can ignore it and move on or report it, and it seems to work fine for them. i do think downvotes have a use though, i’m just not sure what it is. what do you all think?
I only downvote if the comment is being rude, spam, insulting, or hateful. If it’s someone sharing their opinion about something, even if I and “everyone else” disagrees, it’s not worthy of my downvote. It makes me mad when legitimate thoughts that are relevant, but against the grain, get downvoted.
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@salarua
I don’t downvote anything ever. People’s posts can speak for themselves. I upvote to give a reward. It isn’t much of a reward, but what do you expect for gratis? A little dopamine hit is better than nothing.I only upvote, and just move on. If I find myself constantly finding a particular user’s comments toxic, block them.
We’ve discussed downvoting multiple times in the past week, please take a look at older posts. Removing per rule #4.
