Can you guys make voting like reddit why does a downvote have to be a happy face and count as a 'fun' vote, thats retarded

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[–]christine_grab 24 insightful - 7 fun24 insightful - 6 fun25 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

I much prefer this voting system over Reddit's. One of the things that drove me crazy about Reddit was the hive-mind of subs. If your opinion differed from the hive, you were downvoted to oblivion. At Reddit, the popular information was considered the correct information, facts be damned! This caused a lot of people there to believe bad info to be true.

I truly believe sites like Reddit are contributing to a break-down of society because people cannot discern "popular" from "fact." The sci-fi series The Orville did a great episode about this; I think it was Season 1, Episode 7: Majority Rule, where death sentences were determined by how many up and down votes the suspect got instead of a trial.

[–]shadow_wolf7[S] 4 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

i understand what youre saying but i still prefer having the downvote button, if you cant handle being downvoted create your own sub with other like minded individuals.

[–]Justin 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If needing a downvote button is this important to you, you're more than welcome to start your own reddit clone that has it.