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View submission: Announcing Blocking Updates
YouTube got rid of dislikes as well. Not too long before the downvote disappears for good.
Comment by behold_the_castrato at 24/01/2022 at 01:57 UTC*
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The upvote can go with it.
I see no benefit to votes whatsoever. He is a great fool who believes that anyone would ever downvote anything for “not contributing to the discussion”. — There are entire subreddits where I've never seen a single off-topic post that did not contribute, but many downvotes for things as simple as liking a television series others don't, it seems.
On, say, r/learnjapanese, one would assume that the votes are an indication of accuracy, but I've seen so many posts upvoted there that contained flagrantly ungrammatical Japanese and wrong explanations despite replies that point this out.
Votes exist for no other reason than this system exists: to create echo chambers because echo chambers are commcially very interesting for advertisers.
Comment by theth1rdchild at 20/01/2022 at 17:50 UTC
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This block system is dumb and bad but I see an awful lot of comments below score threshold for just saying an opinion people don't like. And I don't mean "opinions" like black people aren't people I mean opinions like "I didn't have a lot of fun with that game because x". Burying someone in downvotes is against the spirit of good discussion and the minute it became obvious the downvote button was used a disagree button it should have been removed.
Comment by [deleted] at 20/01/2022 at 17:11 UTC
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TBH I think downvote removals were a long time coming.
Unlike YT, it won't change much for reddit, which is pretty much all comment section. You'd just get ratio'd a la twitter instead of downvoted to all hell for saying stupid stuff