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[–]happysmash27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Although I sometimes feel like I could use a downvote button too, I think it was worth it not to include it, as the option to downvote pushes people to smite people's wrongthink into oblivion instead of debate it. Sure, sometimes awfully unfunny political things end up in /s/funny, but I think that is a decent tradeoff.

I can think of one possible compromise though: Allow an "unfunny/boring" button that only appears in subs like this one geared towards entertainment more than discussion. It would be a bit awkward to implement in the Android client, but hopefully it would not be used very often anyway.

This could still have unintended consequences, though, so I would not want it implemented without much discussion. What if people still decide to use it for disagreement instead, for example?