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[–] 650615? 0 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago 

I disagree with removing downvoats. Not only will it allow worse quality content to reach the front page even more, but people will only see the upvoats, say 10 of them on a submission and think it's something people like when in fact they can't see that the post actually has double or triple the amount of people who dislike it than like it. Very bad idea to remove downvoats imo. I think the 100CCP is a good limit for it.

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[–] umpaloompa 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The problem with 100 CCP is that eventually most of the site will get 100 CCP which will results in the same effects it had on reddit:downvoting = disagreeing.

I prefer to have the report as spam button remove content. If more people have reported something as spam vs. the amount it was upvoted. Then we could actually get rid of downvotes.

The best thing we, as a community can do is to have 2-4 day trial and see how it works out and if people prefer the idea of no sort of downvoting.

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[–] boater 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

What about for comments which violate sub verse specific rule violations, such as posting spoilers in a no-spoiler thread?

People will want some way to hide these comments, and removing the ability to downvote will remove the ability of communities to do this themselves and instead force them to rely on the presence of extremely active moderators.

I think the ideal solution is to change "downvoting" to "downmodding", where in order to "downmod" a comment, users must select an objective and specific rule that the comment has broken from a finite list of choices specific to each subverse.

Upon clicking the downmod arrow, what will happen is that the site will create either a drop-down menu or overlay containing a list of radio buttons. Then, in order for the downmod to go through, the user must select a specific rule violation from the list, ex. "spoilers", "only contains insults", "spam".

This could encourage users to be more objective and impartial with their downvotes, rather than using them subjectively in the same manner as they would upvotes. It would also allow different subverses to maintain different rules for downvoting, and allow for no downvoting in subverses with no rules.

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[–] 12_Years_A_Toucan [S] 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

What about removing it just for comments?

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[–] 650903? 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Even for comments I don't think they should be removed. But that's just me. I respect yours and others opinion and reasons for removing them though. I just feel that removing them altogether, the negatives of it will outweigh any positives that could come of it.