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Re: "Request for a downvote button The upvote button is a great..."
I am not a fan of the down vote idea, since it invites a sense of negativity. If your post isn't interesting nobody will like or comment on it, which is a decent enough indicator of what people think about it interest wise. I do like the idea of sorting post by total popularity, how active it is, and newest post.
Jul 26 · 4 months ago
I like @moddedBear's idea of popularity decay to resolve the issue of threads trending forever with other threads never getting the opportunity to get boosted because people filtering by "hot" might not ever see them (for now it's slow, but traffic could pick up later). @skyjake's "not interested" mechanic is a great idea as well.
The arguement that downvotes are bad because they can be abused can conversely apply to the upvote which can also be abused for the same reasons. The anti-negativity cult fails to see that shilling is often times worse to a community by creating an echo-chamber that dismisses other viewpoints (see: reddit). 4chan's sage feature did a lot to combat bump abuse of shit posts.
Anti negativity cult? What? People are just saying that a generic down vote button doesn't really work in this environment
I feel like this would make sense if Bubble had thousands of users. At that scale, a reputation system starts to become necessary in order to recognize trolls and chuds. As it stands currently, the userbase is small enough that the handful of weirdos can be easily muted.
Request for a downvote button The upvote button is a great feature to put interesting and quality posts to the top when sorting by hot. What constitutes quality is subjective, therefore having the ability to downvote content that is disinteresting or low quality helps to counter-balance articles that get overinflated with likes. Another solution would be to have a new/hot hybid sort method where the last three newest low vote/no vote threads take the first three slots, followed by the top...