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  • enkerstoLemmy@lemmy.mlWhat if downvotes actually did something?
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    1 day ago

    Sure! I’ll repost someone else’s explanation:

    Each comment has a score from -1 to 5 (most comments start at 1), and each user has a score from -10 to 50 (start at 0). Any account that is at least a year or two old, has a high enough score, and has a certain amount of recent activity will occasionally get a package of “mod points” that can be used for increasing or decreasing the score of a comment in any thread to which the user hasn’t already posted along with the score of the user who posted the comment. (Site administrators get unlimited mod points.)

    Just to add a few minor bits: Comments that reached -1 would appear collapsed by default. When voting, you’d also choose one out of a preset list of reasons (insightful, funny, etc.), and the dominant reason would tag your comment as that.



  • This right here. If anything, I prefer Slashdot style mod points to upvotes/downvotes as there is an opportunity cost to voting. I find it fosters more interesting and less echo-chambery discussions.

    Most of us are probably guilty of this at least on occaaion, but the down vote button isn’t intended to be a disagree button.