We should bring back downvotes

[french_fry_guy]

@st4tic AND THE LIMITS!! If you like more than 5 things on a topic then you should be allowed to upvote it!

[french_fry_guy]

And sorry if I come off as irritated, it’s just starting to get on my nerves.

[st4tic]

exactly, and it's funny how following the same thought process they used as an excuse to remove downvotes, you could very well upvote an user's post to make their reputation skyrocket (especially considering, you know, the upvote limit is way higher than downvotes, which if i'm not mistaken is 50 per day), but nobody talks about that.

instead, let's label someone getting up to the 5-downvote limit, which is TEN TIMES SMALLER, as "downvote abuse" and remove the only peaceful way of disagreeing with users. how brilliant!

[french_fry_guy]

@Idyll Fr

[french_fry_guy]

@st4tic honestly, it pmo bad

[french_fry_guy]

If this post becomes my first locked post I’m actually gonna be upset because I’m expressing an opinion

[st4tic]

@french_fry_guy i get why it would because it's fuckin stupid

and just in general, the fact they focused on censoring swears (even those that don't have sexual connotations) and removing downvotes instead of actually fixing the site is crazy

[st4tic]

this site nowadays is just like an image a certain friend made

[Yanderemenhera]

just gonna repost this^^ 🥰

[st4tic]

@Yanderemenhera "freaky tongue emoji" </3

[Yanderemenhera]

if someone is truly being downvote bombed on this forum and they have not done anything and people are like, down voting them because they are gay or something like that, (highly unlikely given our userbase being woke LGBTQ teenagers ) I feel like that's a separate moderation issue aside from "o0o0o0opppp~ looks like this person is getting a bunch of downvotes" and is more of a hateful discrimination issue like if someone called someone else a slur under a post.

I think there's not any real argument to not adding them back but one of sheer laziness and stupidity tbh.

[st4tic]

@Yanderemenhera to be fair, i got downvoted on random posts once by a certain deleted user for no reason. that didn't move me at all, especially because i was already being upvoted after that.

being offended because someone has the potential to remove a measly 5 internet points from your account per day is just stupid to me, especially for people that already have over a hundred rep in total. everybody get your shit together

[Noctis]

We need downvotes back to even out the upvotes, obviously if there are people that are downvoting you randomly we need to ask why, downvotes has not been a problem because its either agree or disagree

[Yanderemenhera]

@st4tic yep, couldn't agree with you more

[Noctis]

We should make a group for people who have permission to downvote

[st4tic]

if that does happen needing to have permission to peacefully disagree with people is crazy

[boomboxXD]

@french_fry_guy what the hell they took down, down votes?!
that makes no sense

[Yanderemenhera]

@st4tic 🥹

reminds me of that old failed VIP member shit from 2025

[st4tic]

@boomboxXD you've been on this site for a while, how have you not noticed it or seen wolfie's topic

but yeah it's stupid

[st4tic]

@Yanderemenhera just to remind you of how far back this shit was, i remember asking blake to add me to the group i STILL have the badge on my profile