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Re:Facebook rolls out trial of 'dislike' button for downvoti... by contourtrails on Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:04AM (#16983471)
What is the purpose? What will downvoting enable aside from downvoting itself?

I have a sense it will only worsen the mob mentality on Facebook and make it more like Reddit.

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Re:Facebook rolls out trial of 'dislike' button for downvoti... by na85 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:56AM (#16984791)
Sorry to break it to you but HN is exactly the same. The difference is that the hive mind here doesn't like memes.

Groupthink still exists.

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Re:Facebook rolls out trial of 'dislike' button for downvoti... by contourtrails on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:31AM (#16985819)
Hive mind exists everywhere, the goal is to not encourage it.
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Re:Facebook rolls out trial of 'dislike' button for downvoti... by na85 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:01PM (#16990396)
Voting on comments encourages it.
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