Please de-anonymize downvotes
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Anonymous downvotes are bad because they
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Discourage discussion, since downvotes arent a implicit "i didn't like this" comment button and more of a completely weird thing where people just don't talk anymore
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Encourage downvote attacks, since people can downvote for zero reason
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Have zero good use-case, but only bad use-cases, the only use of it is to downvote someone without contributing to the discussion
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Are just super dramatic for no reason, you don't know who downvotes posts so you're just always guessing subconsciously because it's a small community
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Makes the platform less unique and more similar to reddit, a terrible website
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Staff and moderators can still see downvotes, completely defeating the point of them for only those people
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Someone anonymously downvoted this without saying anything
It genuinely feels like only a tool for dishonest/cowardly people, this has to be straight up a worse change than removing downvotes entirely, it's just getting rid of any meaning to them except to hate
Also upvotes aren't anonymous so it lowkey doesn't even make sense
deltarune tomorrow
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Someone anonymously downvoted this without saying anything
It genuinely feels like only a tool for dishonest/cowardly people, this has to be straight up a worse change than removing downvotes entirely, it's just getting rid of any meaning to them except to hate
Also upvotes aren't anonymous so it lowkey doesn't even make sense
it's just really frustrating to have to deal with reddit garbage again and (not a threat, just straight up what's probably going to happen) I will probably use the forum part of this website way less/leave it completely if anonymous downvotes are still a thing, like it's that bad and destroys basically anything I liked about it.
It also encourages trolling, like a really cowardly version of it, which is what's likely happening here tbh i'm probably just feeding whatever trolls but there shouldn't be a tool for people like that built into the website
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Why did I read this lol
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it's just really frustrating to have to deal with reddit garbage again and (not a threat, just straight up what's probably going to happen) I will probably use the forum part of this website way less/leave it completely if anonymous downvotes are still a thing, like it's that bad and destroys basically anything I liked about it.
It also encourages trolling, like a really cowardly version of it, which is what's likely happening here tbh i'm probably just feeding whatever trolls but there shouldn't be a tool for people like that built into the website
auntie menhera's neices, nephews and niblings Chud before-update supporter He ate them #fuckmybakalife Eric Cartman canida 🥀 😭🙏 wilford bremly fangurl cult Swagg_c3rt1fi3d<3 Belt to ass Тотя well, fuc- pale as F∪CK short person chronically online former staff But 20$ is 20$ high af Chaotic Asexuals The Lords of Pillows Mr. Duran's class@UnpaidIntern imma be honest, I feel like the reasons why someone might downvote someone varies
wildly from case to case, sometimes you genuinely dislike someone or maybe you're sarcastically down voting your friend since they made a dumb joke, or maybe you think someone's post is awful (cringe, obnoxious, unnecessary, and so on) it is counterintuitive to just not be able to know who down voted you.
I don't know if the annonoumous down voting was intentional or another bug on this janky ass website, but if it was intentional I feel like it should be removed or at the very least give you an option to annon down vote in the way you can annon vote on polls.I did downvote someone's post in this thread for example, I personally wont directly call them out or anything but idrc if they know I down voted them.
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It's really annoying that there's been zero points or replies made in favor of anonymous downvoting, but only like a million downvotes without anyone saying anything, like it doesn't really matter but i wish there was more actual discussion, it's supposed to be a forum
Like tbh it doesn't really bother me as much but i really miss the old voting system
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If I downvote someone I normally wouldn't mind explaining the reasoning, but I wouldn't explain for every downvote I make on a comment or post, nor would I want to... how exhausting. A downvote is enough to convey that you dislike whatever a person is saying or a topic is portraying- you dont have to explain if you dont want to. Plus, there's plenty of other things to talk about and discuss on the forum as I feel that trying to have a discussion about downvotes or why someone downvoted you is more draining than an actual fun conversation about.. literally anything else
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You calling for people to explain themselves after every downvote and implying they're cowardly is the exact reason I downvoted
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the fact that you got downvotes for this is pretty contradictory to what you wanted to happen
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If I downvote someone I normally wouldn't mind explaining the reasoning, but I wouldn't explain for every downvote I make on a comment or post, nor would I want to... how exhausting. A downvote is enough to convey that you dislike whatever a person is saying or a topic is portraying- you dont have to explain if you dont want to. Plus, there's plenty of other things to talk about and discuss on the forum as I feel that trying to have a discussion about downvotes or why someone downvoted you is more draining than an actual fun conversation about.. literally anything else
auntie menhera's neices, nephews and niblings Chud before-update supporter He ate them #fuckmybakalife Eric Cartman canida 🥀 😭🙏 wilford bremly fangurl cult Swagg_c3rt1fi3d<3 Belt to ass Тотя well, fuc- pale as F∪CK short person chronically online former staff But 20$ is 20$ high af Chaotic Asexuals The Lords of Pillows Mr. Duran's class@Araghie yeah, I agree with that, I don't feel like explaining my downvote reason ether, but I also don't care if someone knows I down voted them and I feel like in most situations people can infer on their own why I down voted them (I.e. they posted something like "i'm not reading all that" when a post is like 2-4 paragraghs.) I feel like the best compromise to this would be an option to down vote annon, like with polls since this seems to be a touchy subject and i'd rather it not be used as an excuse to take down votes away.
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imo, if you dont like it. ignore it, its what you do in real life. if you dont like something someone says, ignore it- ngl, i thought downvotes were for CONTRAVERSIAL stuff, especially considering your profile shows downvotes, and if something is downvoted its marked as "contraversial"
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You calling for people to explain themselves after every downvote and implying they're cowardly is the exact reason I downvoted
You calling for people to explain themselves after every downvote and implying they're cowardly is the exact reason I downvoted
oh dang
uhhh wait yeah i did literally say that, i mostly just wanted a reason for why it was happening thank you
I probably shouldn't have implied that people are cowardly for downvoting things, its just frustrating when there's a huge pile of downvotes without a explanation (until now, thank you)
I don't think people should have to explain themselves after every downvote, but anonymous downvotes still make it harder to not ask for a explanation. It's okay for anyone to just say that they disagree with something even without an explanation, but the lack of any knowledge to see if they should be taken seriously and if i made like an actual mistake like I did here is really annoying when I make a ton of mistakes socially
One time I made a joke and got mass downvoted for it because I didn't include a "/j" at the end of it and people took it seriously, I had like a whole panic because I couldn't know if this one guy like super hated me for making that joke or if it was just people misinterpreting it. I only figured it out when they upvoted my joke that they didn't super hate me and it was just my mistake of not putting a tone tag there making people half-seriously downvote the post because they thought I said that BDNS was a christian forum with a straight face.
I think it's more of a me thing atp, but it still invokes a lot of panic in me personally
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I agree, I'm not sure why everyone is suddenly downvoting you for this.
It has no positive contribution. They got rid of downvotes for a while due to downvoting attacks, and now that they're back they've made it be easier to carry out mass downvoting..?
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You calling for people to explain themselves after every downvote and implying they're cowardly is the exact reason I downvoted
oh dang
uhhh wait yeah i did literally say that, i mostly just wanted a reason for why it was happening thank you
I probably shouldn't have implied that people are cowardly for downvoting things, its just frustrating when there's a huge pile of downvotes without a explanation (until now, thank you)
I don't think people should have to explain themselves after every downvote, but anonymous downvotes still make it harder to not ask for a explanation. It's okay for anyone to just say that they disagree with something even without an explanation, but the lack of any knowledge to see if they should be taken seriously and if i made like an actual mistake like I did here is really annoying when I make a ton of mistakes socially
One time I made a joke and got mass downvoted for it because I didn't include a "/j" at the end of it and people took it seriously, I had like a whole panic because I couldn't know if this one guy like super hated me for making that joke or if it was just people misinterpreting it. I only figured it out when they upvoted my joke that they didn't super hate me and it was just my mistake of not putting a tone tag there making people half-seriously downvote the post because they thought I said that BDNS was a christian forum with a straight face.
I think it's more of a me thing atp, but it still invokes a lot of panic in me personally
auntie menhera's neices, nephews and niblings Chud before-update supporter He ate them #fuckmybakalife Eric Cartman canida 🥀 😭🙏 wilford bremly fangurl cult Swagg_c3rt1fi3d<3 Belt to ass Тотя well, fuc- pale as F∪CK short person chronically online former staff But 20$ is 20$ high af Chaotic Asexuals The Lords of Pillows Mr. Duran's class@UnpaidIntern sometimes people just downvote bad jokes because they can, I could be wrong but I doubt most people would just downvote you for not including a "/j".
I don't even use tone tags, I just feel like most people can infer I'm not being serious given the context of a situation, my most down voted post I made ages ago about the boy kisser kidnapping your brother was very clearly satirical in nature but the joke was poorly excicuted and got lots of downvotes, however I do not take them very seriously and I don't care too much when a joke gets down voted.
downvotes when used in this context can somewhat replace another removed feature we used to have, we used to have reactions for posts by the upvote and downvote area, where you could react with emojis not unlike how it's used on platforms like discord. someone might downvote a shitty joke because they can just react with "
" and they just don't want to make a reply of just emojis.I suppose at the end of the day our generation lives online more than in person so it's difficult to not view down votes as nothing more than a number but almost like a social credit score, and seeing a lot of negative numbers can feel like a personal attack or like everyone hates you but I promise you and whomever else is reading this the phrase "it's not that deep" applies here.
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