Recently, many of our anti-Zionists posts have been downvoted to oblivion by liberals. As hexberians realized a while back, downvotes only help liberals since they are more numerous and they don’t need to engage in discourse. I am proposing to just get rid of downvotes and instead engage in discourse on content that we disagree on.
I think both upvotes and downvotes should be removed. I do not like the idea of there being “scores” for posts. It makes posting feel needlessly competitive.
The good thing about upvoting is it makes the best content go to the top. I say get rid of downvotes entirely and hide upvotes. So they still function but don’t display a score
I think it’s an improvement over the old BBS style “last replied to at the top” and also naturally integrates the replies that are “broad agreement but nothing to add” (e.g. “this”) for measuring a particular thread’s engagement.
Not a grad user, but replying to say I would love to try out an instance which implements this.
I strongly agree with this. A problem might be the way sorting works, a comment at the top would have the implicit perception of a higher score, even with hidden scores.
remove downvotes, remove upvotes, remove images and make the site look a usenet BBS from 1989 and I’m not joking
So Metafilter plus communities (although they did add upvoting eventually)?