Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It

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[–]fschmidt 9 insightful - 7 fun9 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

But at least it allows people to express the negative side of things. In the absence of negativity, we users are only able to express ourselves given the available functions that remain.

How about writing a negative comment you moronic modern scum. The downvote is a tool for the majority of moronic modern scum to attack the non-moronic minority without having to explain themselves.

[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

This. Downvotes are like passive aggressive cop-outs.

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

Excellent point. Too much social media is distorted by fake internet points for inflating egos.

It's somewhat ironic that while there are some people who would argue for de-anonymizing social media and require real name policies etc., they would still likely prefer to hide cowardly behind vote counters.

I might just end up going back to arguing on USENET to avoid all this gamification, if it's still there...