Who are we, youtube? Lol but seriously, can’t downvote I get a red bar saying problem voting. I can upvote though.
Using wefwef on iPhone.
Who are we, youtube? Lol but seriously, can’t downvote I get a red bar saying problem voting. I can upvote though.
Using wefwef on iPhone.
Can someone explain the rationale behind downvotes being disabled?
What good is a downvote? It doesn’t say anything. If you dislike something, reply in rebuttal. Then you’re explaining the issue with a comment, and people can judge from there.
Votes arent calculated anyway. The mods and admins handle reports, so anything distasteful gets removed. If you dislike a post but cant bother to rebuke it, why should you just downvote it? The poster put some effort into the post, the least you can do a reply.
Makes sense!
One of the big reasons IMO is that people, especially on Reddit, vote extremely inconsistently.
For info on this, you can read our docs here.
My experience is that, in a sense, it was actually extremely consistent. People see a comment with a score of 0 or -1 (or lower) and they downvote it. It’s a direct signal from the eyes to the the hands; the brain doesn’t process it. They see a top comment and they upvote it, without checking the comment for correctness.
I admit I never checked a comment for correctness and upvoted because it looked right, but I also never ever downvoted because I saw a low score and can’t actually imagine real people did that. They were already folded down if they were like -24, and I usually upvoted reasonable but unpopular stuff (common source of a 0 or -1). Downvote trains are for people saying slurs and spammers.
https://docs.beehaw.org/docs/core-functions/why-downvotes-are-disabled/