EDIT: Maybe just for comments? Downvoats may still help with content quality control
There is some good in the concept of downvoating however in practice we've seen and continue to see the primary use a downvoat button will be an "I disagree with this person" button.
Removing downvoating entirely will not negatively impact the site. Misinformation will still be called out and not upvoated, spammers should be reported(hoping for that report button one day), ass holes will be called out, irrelevant posts and comments will be ignored/receive very few if any upvoats or get reported.
Removing the downvoat ability would also deal with any future issues with brigades, which was a big issue on that other place.
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[–] sng-ign 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
So, the grading scale would only be upvoat or nothing? IDK. So far, people seem to be okay with only upvoats for probation, and then "graduating" to downvoats later.
Maybe upping the upvoat restriction to 1K (1000) may do it, but all it will do is have newbies upvoating everything they see until they can downvoat ...
And thus the cycle continues.
[–] 12_Years_A_Toucan [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
I just see in the long term it causing more harm than good. Maybe even just removing downvoating for comments? As that is a compromise that still helps with my main concerns of being a disagree button.
[–] sng-ign ago
@12_Years_A_Toucan // I would prefer blocking users, but the block feature has not been deployed yet on Voat ...