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

Sorry, I didn't get your first post completely right.

The soft modding is a good tool if it is used by smart and responsible users. Unfortunately default subs will get bigger and the masses unfortunately dumber. This is what reddit's defaults look like now: an echo-chamber where everything that doesn't comply with the norm will get downvoted and that user will not want to share his (controversial) views with us eliminating.

In the end it's what will most people use the downvote button. Is it to terminates trolls/spammers or to have it used as a disagreement button. What we should do is find a way to keep the ability to indicate trolls/spammers and terminate the use of disagreeing by the downvote.

Your points in the linked comment are good but in my opinion won't make a effect to the users that downvote because they disagree. They'll just take one more minute to downvote. But I guess we should try both methods or have some sort of poll/megathread across voat and have the users explain their views and influence other users.

PS: You look like a responsible user, so I took 5 minutes the time to upvote some of your comments so you get the rights to downvote faster + I would love to have you at my sub /v/changemyview, the way yor academic-like argue is fantastic.