[Serious] How would you feel about Saidit adding downvotes, but having them be worth (say) only 25% of an upvote?

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[–]cybitch 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'd like a "disagree", where people can express they don't agree with the batshit and the general consensus of users can be shown without hiding unpopular opinions. So, not a downvote, because it wouldn't take anything away from the post, but a way for the more "mainstream" users to demonstrate to the newbies that there are people here who disagree with a lot of the frontpage stuff as well and to show that there's true diversity of opinion on this site.

[–]Questionable 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If you disagree with someone, we will agree with your reply and up vote it. This is the best way for you to show your disagreement, and for others to show their approval of said disagreement. Limiting it in this manner will prevent retaliatory behaviors, and force users to express themselves with words, and not clicks.

[–]cybitch 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not everyone is going to be reading the replies. If people see racist topics on the front page and they can only see the upvotes next to it they probably won't bother clicking on the topic. At the same time, I don't believe downvotes are a solution because of what you said, people should be encouraged to discuss topics not just click and move on, also downvotes give rise to brigading which ends up serving the same function as censorship. Having a disagree emoji would be a good way to make sure the front page represents the reality of the site, so normies would bother to click further instead of just running away because they feel like everyone here agrees with that stuff.