Wtf has SaidIt done right that Ruqqus did wrong?

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[–]Slutbuster 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Nothing more satisfying than downvoting someone that you think is wrong.

It's like shorthand for telling them they're an idiot - keeps things much more civil.

[–]VulpesLeonesque 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nah, I'm loving the lack of downvotes, saying whatever I think instead of self-censoring. Not signing out to see if I'm shadowbanned on a particular sub too, things like that. I've got hopes for this place, feels like reddit of years ago.

No downvotes also means visibility for oddballs who believe weird things, some of which will eventually turn out to be true, if the lessons of the past are anything to go off.

[–]Slutbuster 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

saying whatever I think instead of self-censoring

Downvotes should never stop you from doing that. The shadowbans, on the other hand...

[–]apoliticalinactivist 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You're describing an echo chamber. That satisfaction is what makes it so tempting and popular across social media. Downvoting leaves you with that smug satisfaction without ever needing to engage the views of the other person. Deriving pleasure in your smug self satisfaction while reducing contact with others that you might not agree with? That's a circle jerk, lol.

Civility/orderly is not the way of democracy. It's messy and sloppy because it has to be. Everything it thrown in and over time, the best floats to the top.

[–]theoracle 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nothing more satisfying than downvoting someone that you think is wrong.It's like shorthand for telling them they're an idiot - keeps things much more civil.

Except when people downvote stuff they just don't understand. As in it's the group that is wrong not the poster.

Remember that time Galileo got down voted and banned?