cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/1332080

downvoting everything i disagree with seems excessive and unhealthy, considering i can just ignore and move on. Beehaw doesn’t have downvotes at all, reasoning that you can ignore it and move on or report it, and it seems to work fine for them. i do think downvotes have a use though, i’m just not sure what it is. what do you all think?

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I generally use it for “you’re a twat” in general-discussion posts, or “that’s actually misleading people” in factual-resource posts. Stuff that doesn’t warrant reporting, but I feel should be discouraged nonetheless, by my own personal standards.

    Shit takes, unpleasant ideology, aggrieved stupidity, a senseless waste of perfectly good electrons, etc.

    It is the crow of jugdement staring back at them.

    Disagreeing is fine; I can disagree with people all day and not downvote them over it. Being wrong about stuff doesn’t make someone an asshole. However, being an asshole about stuff does frequently make people wrong, which is where the confusion may lie.

    • kjetil@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think of downvotes as crowdsourced moderation:

      Posts made in bad faith, with a toxic attitude or wildly offtopic get a downvote