Yeah. On the surface it seems like it would be a positive. But in practice, it shields people from criticism of their behavior.
Yeah, yeah, “use your words” and all that, but some comments are just so brain-dead or trollish that they’re not worth a response, and even a downvote is expending far more effort than the comment is worth. So the person who made it sees 3 upvotes but not the 50 downvotes, so their takeaway is that “wow, 3 people liked my braindead comment” rather than everyone except 3 people hated it.
I get the appeal of disabling downvotes, but if I say something stupid, I wanna know.
the majority of comments on here or any platform are braindead nonsense to me. I just try to focus on the one or two intelligent and informative ones. And boy do dumb people like to downvote smart commentary or personally harass the poster.
Yeah. On the surface it seems like it would be a positive. But in practice, it shields people from criticism of their behavior.
Yeah, yeah, “use your words” and all that, but some comments are just so brain-dead or trollish that they’re not worth a response, and even a downvote is expending far more effort than the comment is worth. So the person who made it sees 3 upvotes but not the 50 downvotes, so their takeaway is that “wow, 3 people liked my braindead comment” rather than everyone except 3 people hated it.
I get the appeal of disabling downvotes, but if I say something stupid, I wanna know.
the majority of comments on here or any platform are braindead nonsense to me. I just try to focus on the one or two intelligent and informative ones. And boy do dumb people like to downvote smart commentary or personally harass the poster.