-12 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
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What are downvotes useful for on reddit, in your opinion?
They are great for making someone feel bad but what else?
Comment by [deleted] at 08/12/2021 at 14:48 UTC
5 upvotes, 3 direct replies
They push down bad and conversationally unproductive content. It's the whole concept of community self moderation, subreddits decide what they want to be and can upvote/downvote content accordingly. Removing them means giving more power to mods and admins to centrally decide top down what communities and what reddit as a whole becomes.
Comment by photoben at 08/12/2021 at 14:36 UTC
-1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Great for people to disagree with you but they are too lazy to say why.