Bad Question OP Archived Instead of whining about downvoats, why not post better content and work on your discussion skills? (AskVoat)
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Bad Question OP Archived Instead of whining about downvoats, why not post better content and work on your discussion skills? (AskVoat)
submitted ago by big_fat_dangus
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[–] Reow 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I completely agree with you, but the problem is how to enforce this. Even if it should be part of the community spirit, there will always be those who misuse downvotes, and it would be nearly impossible to prove they downvoted because they disagreed instead of because they thought the comment had no value.
If downvotes are simply supposed to be about enforcing the rules of the sub, I think we should do away with them and replace them with a Report button instead. Alternatively, if we simply want people to think before downvoting, then perhaps whenever a person downvotes, they should lose a point of karma (or whatever we're calling it) as well (StackExchange does something similar to this). Honestly, though, I don't know if there is a good solution.
[–] weeeasles 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Limiting the ability to down vote sounds like a good idea to me, so long as we stop have a system in place to prevent mass spam from exploiting said measures.