Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It

Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by okareaman on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:52AM (#27983731)

I don't mind downvotes on my comments, I just wish a downvote required a comment stating some kind of reason for it. Even a short comment "I don't like this" would be telling because it would indicate they don't have a reason other than emotion. Often I initially get a bunch of downvotes and then later enough upvotes to even it out.

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by Y_Y on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:46AM (#27985185)

I downvote stuff because it's either low-effort or inflammatory. I don't know if it would be valuable to tell the commenter this, because they're unlikely to agree.

(I know that this isn't what everyone does, just wanted to offer a data point.)

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by tjpnz on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:16AM (#27984030)

>I just wish a downvote required a comment stating some kind of reason for it.

Could be interesting if it were applied selectively. If a user had a higher number of downvotes to upvotes over a sustained period of time for instance.

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by okareaman on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:42AM (#27984373)

Someone with honest contrarian views would not be hurt by this because they leave usually comments with reasons. I appreciate them as much as the up voters.

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