The disagree button bitches
I am one of them. Always have been, always will.
My take on downvote is it should be treated as an upvote when sorting. Along with it, a "flag as spam" button is provided which basically acts like a downvote (perhaps weighted more heavily). Only users >=level 5 could hit the spam button, to provent brigading abuse (as already does in a meriad of ways)
This way, niggers can hit the downvote to express their opinion, but it only serves to drive it higher. This makes abuse of the spam button way more obvious, because there is no ambiguity in what "spam" means. Contrast with "downvote" which intuitively implies "disagree" since upvote is basically an "agree/like content" button.
Problem with the way it is now: truly controversial topics are lost because just two or three downvotes can keep a post from rising to front page.
I think that's how Reddit work(s/ed). "Controversial" posts which had close to the same up to down vote ratio would rise up in the feed.
My preference is how Voat looked at it though. If you like a post, upvoat it. If you don't like it, don't. You could report spam and stuff, but the downvoat button also served to put those posts at the bottom in the meantime before a mod or admin could get to it so the good stuff stayed on top.
My issue with the voat or poal approach is how the downvote button is essentially just a "spam" button.
The way it is used on Poal is explicitly a spam button. So why not make an actual spam button and just treat the up/down vote as an activity guage. More active shit gets pushed to the top. No respect to up/down ratio. If a post has +5/-5 it is weighted as having 10 upvotes, so it will sit next to the post wil +10/-0.
Personally, this would make the most sense to me.
That does make sense. It would open up some faggotry where some people start using the spam button as the disagree button though. If implemented however, I have no doubt AOU would stomp that out pretty quick.
>The way it is used on Poal is explicitly a spam button. So why not make an actual spam button and just treat the up/down vote as an activity guage.
But then how do you spot downvote bitches?
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