This site needs a serious design overhaul

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[–]Wrang1er 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Are you thinking about adding downvotes to saidit?

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

nope, just back to the codebase for other sites to use if they so choose. having mixed voting here would be a major tech burden.

[–]BadRNG 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

If a downvote is added, can it be seperate? Like I don't want it to subtract from the upvotes. Just a seperate counter to see how many disagree.

Also, is saidit open-source?

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

yep it's open source. i doubt we'll ever add it, but yeah it could be added like that.

[–]BadRNG 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I'm all for no downvotes btw. The problem with them is they can be used to bury unpleasant facts.

I was thinking that maybe they can only be used attached to a reply disproving said fact. That would give downvotes more weight and would be less prevalent. But then again, that would complicate things, especially since the downvote could be attached to a reply simply stating: "no".

So no downvotes lol.

[–]teelo 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

The problem with them is they can be used to bury unpleasant facts.

The problem with them is they were designed for burying spam and links to Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up, but they instead got used as a disagree button.

[–]joewest1313 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No good deed goes unpunished.

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

That's exactly what happened. It morpherd into the perfect echo chamber creation button.

[–]send_nasty_stuff 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No downvotes and saidit should also get rid of the stupid funny upvote. Just upvoting things is a good way to organize social media in my opinion. If you want to 'downvote' someone you just with hold your upvote and the persons comment or thread won't float up as high.