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

Personally, my biggest gripe with the downvoat system is brigading against a user or subreddit or ideology, which sort of fits into disagreement. The problem I have with allowing Mods to regulate only is that it relies on having good mods. Some guy mgiht make a sub that becomes hugely popular but doesn't hire good mods or care to regulate it (we've seen it a lot over at reddit), which means that these sub's will have no effective regulation. It could also lead to suppression of content/censorship.

We'd see threads like "This mod has been suppresing users and censoring any time they try to speak up!" and even though the post would be well intention, you know what would happen because of it? Brigading.

This is why I'm not really for removing the power from the users entirely.

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[–] forbidden_arts ago 

We're already beholden to having "good" mods.

In a sub like /v/news or /v/politics (which, on the predecessor site generate a lot of content), I'd argue that downvoats should be disabled or restricted, because expressing an unpopular opinion shouldn't cause a user to get fucked over.

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[–] Xelios ago 

Personally, I agree that some subreddits, should the owners choose, should have the ability to remove downvoats. I do not think it should be a default setting, however.