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I was asked what I think the button is good for and I answered it above:

For spam, for hate, for racism, for off-topic-stuff, for advertisement, for trolls, for “bad” bots, for people who ignore facts, …

Well, I think, it’s an interesting topic and I like to share arguments.

If I’d actually worry about downvotes, I’d probably delete my comments.

Why does it exist? I can only tell you what I use it for: For spam, for hate, for racism, for off-topic-stuff, for advertisement, for trolls, for “bad” bots, for people who ignore facts, …

A personal question: How exactly do you differentiate between a post that suggest to destroy country XY and a post of someone who thinks, that topping XY on a Pizza is good, although you don’t like it? IMO, one of these 2 posts is way worse than the other.

Sorry we aren’t saving you’re precious feelings

You don’t hurt my feelings. You hurt the platform (Lemmy).

I just want to make people think about it.

I hope, I did not hurt your feelings… I mean… You couldn’t even accept the existence of my post without downvoting it…

Imagine, you have an opinion and 30% support it and 70% don’t support it. Now, you post it, get 30 likes and 70 dislikes. You total score is now -40. What do you do now? Some people will think “What a stupid platform”. Some people will delete their post. Some people will leave the platform.

by using one of the fundamental features of the website

Ever wondered why Facebook, Twitter, … have no dislike button and why YouTube removed this “fundamental feature”? Because it caused too much negativity which is not good for the platform.

it’s best to shrug and move on

I understand what you mean, although not saying anything means not even having the chance to make someone think about it…

Who defines that? There is a third option (not clicking anything). I use that for disagreement. If I disagree, I write a comment why I disagree instead of just using the middlefinger button and creating echo chambers…

That sounds as intelligent as downvoting all comments that contain the letter “t”.

Downvoting different opinions (we are not event talking about insults, racism, … here) is a perfect way to create echo chambers. Guess, why Facebook, Twitter and like 80% of all social media sites never introduced a downvote… Guess, why YouTube removed the downvote… Because the average user does not seem to be able to accept different opinions without flooding the platform with downvotes.

I think, you have also a few opinions where 7/10 people have a different view than you. 70 people press downvote, 30 press upvote. Now, you are at -40 and think about removing your post, although a 70/30 opinion isn’t that crazy at all.

I think, downvoting every different opinion hurts the platform. That’s why my like/dislike ration is probably like 98/2…

Thanks for sharing your opinion instead of just downvoting the tell out of my comment for no reason like the others…

I don’t share that it looks futuristic.

It was a serious question from my side. I’d have predicted that the concept fails. It’s a surprise for ne that it did not…

I don’t understand why peoole buy this. It looks like the early 2000s weren’t done yet. It looks like a step backwards IMO.

Edit: Ah, nice… This gives me Reddit vibes… Getting downvoted just because you have a different oppinion. “10 dislikes? No, not enough!!! Take mine, too!!!”. What’s the goal? Do you want me to delete my post? I don’t get it…

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Ditched that shit long ago. You know Markdown? Use Joplin!

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