Why I like saidit. It doesn't have downvotes, and that is pro free-speech. When you have downvotes that discourages people from speaking up. We don't need downvotes. If someone says something dumb here, then it just won't rise up, and that's enough. There doesn't need to be double punishment.

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The only problem with it, is that it only functions if every user looks at every post.

Controversial opinions still get lost amid a sea of upvoted partisan titles - and you're right, it can feel like "it was dumb" to post something, but that may not be entirely true. It may also cause other users to look at something and ignore it, because it has no upvotes yet. Meaning controversial things fall into the bucket of 1/0 posts (spam, clickbait, etc) - and can't even be zeroed in on anymore.

tldr: at least downvotes establish controversial posts and they can be searched for easily. Here they get swept away with spam/click and other un-voted content.