Did anyone else have the experience that two downvotes on Reddit hurt more than the good feeling from getting100 upvotes? Or was that just me?
One thing I definitely won’t miss is being downvoted for just asking a question!
Or when you comment something and you get a rain of downvotes without even one person saying why they downvoted you.
Yeah, I sometimes have stupid opinions. But how will I know why it’s stupid if all y’all do is downvote me? People here are very different and would actually talk to you and explain stuff. This is mainly why I’m much more active here.
This has a lot to do with the size of the community, at least for me. Often on Reddit I would have no idea if you were ever going to stick around to make the effort to correct you worthwhile, or if you were just someone that likes to argue endlessly because that’s how you get your entertainment. It just because easier to punish and move on that to try and correct.
Well that depends, if your awnser is already in the subs wiki you are rightfully down voted…
I think it’s natural to have a stronger reaction to bad things more than good things. There’s something called Negativity Bias and it’s kinda why rage-baiting and (bad news) articles is so prevalent is because we inherently feel a stronger reaction to those than the positive counterparts
It’s really hard to hold onto those good feelings from an accomplishment they fade quickly. But the negative ones, even minor, can stick around a long time!
Dopamine is one hella drug.
As someone who mostly lurked what was getting 100 upvotes like?!
For me I was more bothered if something made it to the negative than anything else. That always made me feel super crummy, but sitting at 1 was fine with me.
As a fellow mostly-lurker, this is also how I felt about downvotes. For me I think it was also because of the concept of having a karma score for the account as a whole, rather only on individual comments.
I guess it depends on the post or comment. If it was something creative I posted, those down votes and criticisms sting,however any support is very helpful. If it was just a comment I made, I would usually shrug it off as “whatever.”
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I would also add there’s some inherent inertial component to upvotes. A submission that gets a few upvotes quickly will easily get more upvotes over time because it’s more likely to float into visibility by other people, ultimately regardless of veracity.
As the saying goes, everything on the news is supposedly 100% true until it is about a subject matter one is an expert one.
I like the idea of Downvotes. The principle was a good one but it neglected to consider that people, on the whole, don’t look at vote buttons as up vote = relevant content downvote = irrelevant (their original intention, essentially crowdsourcing moderation / content quality control). Rather they look at them as agree / disagree, like / dislike.
I’m the end I think they hurt the conversation. People can just downvote with ease instead of having to put the effort in the say something, leaving that space for those who had a strong enough drive to be snippy or nasty to full it.
Upvote only still allows a mark of quality / relevance from the community without making it so divisive.
The thing that bothered me was getting downvoted when it made absolutely no sense. When I made some book recommendations, for example.
And I’m pretty sure that in at least some cases, one or more people were following me around to downvote everything I wrote. That kind of petty malice is hard to understand.
I would prefer a downvote to a needlessly rude comment in response to me, but yeah, I’m definitely not going to miss downvotes either
I’d be annoyed for awhile then I’d remember most people used the downvote button as a dislike/disagree button, which isn’t what its meant to be used for.
Haha, -1 is the cruelest number. Much more negative than that and you can just blame the hivemind. But the fact that just a couple of people think you’re wrong makes you really want to start explaining why they’re wrong to downvote you.
I usually got down voted for opinions that I held on topics like cryptocurrency. There seems to be hivemind mentality about certain topics and going against the grain on reddit is not allowed. There has obviously been a lot of bullshit around that topic specifically, but I never took the downvotes personally, I just assumed people were being to dense to try and have a reasonable discussion.
Yes, I hate downvotes and I think they do not contribute to anything other than anger.
