• Trihilis@ani.social
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    10 hours ago

    Honestly, I don’t even like the downvote/upvote system because it promotes censorship and a lot of the times it’s just an agree/disagree button. I feel that no matter how right or wrong someone is, they should always be able to express their opinion in a civil manner (obviously there are mods for removing rule breaking posts/comments). Downvoting just kills any discussion.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      I’ve been places without upvotes and downvotes and they’re just garbage piles of spam and useless replies.

      The Steam Comminity Forms for instance: if you’re trying to get any useful information on a recent release go somewhere else, as half of what you’ll find is people complaining that the game is *woke" (because there is a woman or a minority in it somewhere), and the other half is people complaining that the game isn’t a completely different genre.

      With downvotes the useless, troll, and off topic comments can be filtered out to not clutter up the useful posts.

    • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      8 hours ago

      Not really, it’s removing the comments that isn’t violating is the real problem. There are definitely comments that should be downvoted for many reasons