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[–]Trajan 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Agreed. I show my disapproval by ignoring dumb posts. The ability to downvote is on the vast majority sites pitched as a judgement of quality, rating the post on what it adds to the conversation. The reality is that most people view downvotes as a way to indicate disagreement. That belief wouldn't be a problem if downvotes were not also tied to visibility of posts. Happy to see them absent from Saidit.

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

A long time ago people used to only downvote trolls which I feel the is correct approach and it's also what's happening right now on ruqqus. At one point downvotes became about winning. Nobody would argue or share their opinion because they could just downvote and feel like they won. Now conversations are happening and I really hope we can get a larger variety of opinions