• AlDente@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Look, with nearly 100 comments a day, we realize that no amount of downvotes is going to silence you from commenting in every post. However, for us mere mortals, can you not see how a dogpile of downvotes from the local majority opinion might dissuade some individuals from wanting to engage in discussion?

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      11 months ago

      Nope. I don’t see why it matters when it didn’t even matter on Reddit except that comments with enough downvotes were hidden. They aren’t hidden here.

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        11 months ago

        It’s clearly psychological. It’s not that it quantitatively “matters.” I suspect very few people are going around using the downvote button with the intent of statistically decreasing the view count of a particular comment. On these politically charged posts, it’s used as a litmus test for whether or not you are part of the ‘right side’ or ‘the other side.’