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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by PrimeMcFly on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:28PM (#36261076)
> Waaaaay back in the day, I did like how Slashdot had different categories for voting, e.g. "Insightful", "Funny", "Off topic", etc.

Even that got abused, as comments people didn't like would be modded off-topic or troll.

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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by tezgon on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:44PM (#36263118)
It may just be a natural internet behavior to suppress that which you disagree with.
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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by lostlogin on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:50PM (#36263215)
If you remove the word ‘internet’ you’re right in track.
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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday June 09, 2023 @05:34PM (#36264451)
I'd like to see a site that punishes people for downvoting for the wrong reason.
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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by PrimeMcFly on Friday June 09, 2023 @06:05PM (#36264853)
Honestly we don't need downvoting at all. Just upvoting to allow good stuff to rise, and flagging for hate speech and illegal stuff.
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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:02PM (#36265500)
Can't disagree with this enough. Twitter exists, and it sucks. Every site that only allows upvoting becomes a segregated cesspool as different factions just cheerlead in their own tribal zones.
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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by PrimeMcFly on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:06AM (#36267764)
Twitter sucks for other reasons, not because they disallow downvoting.
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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:00PM (#36265480)
Please, pray tell, how would you even determine if something was "for the wrong reason".
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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by nerdbert on Friday June 09, 2023 @08:44PM (#36266345)
Slashdot had metamoderation, where you were asked whether various anonymized votes/tags were valid or not.
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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by revskill on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:09AM (#36267785)
The same applied for "upvote"
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