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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

They use down-votes as a form of censorship, so they can keep opinions they don't like away from the front page. That's why it's become a left-wing echo chamber.

[–]Vagina7 1 insightful - 5 fun1 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

but sometimes i wish that we had another button besides insightful and funny, maybe a retarded button.. not that it would censor you, but it would be interesting to be able to sort messages to show the ones that got the most "retarded" votes.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That actually is a pretty interesting idea. Like a downvote, but it doesn't subtract points, it's just another category to vote in that gives 0 points

[–]KaiEdwardBannon 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I wonder how the .compact interface and the app would handle that since insightful is update and funny is downvote.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah we'd have to rewrite both. That's often why stuff that seems like small changes to the site end up being a lot of work