I’ve seen a good bit of debate on Kbin surrounding downvotes, so what are your thoughts? Should they exist? Should they be shown separately? Should you be able to see who downvoted?

I personally like downvotes and especially like that they’re shown separately. You’re able to get a much better idea of how people feel about something, and you can more easily express a minority opinion. Of course, there are downsides (e.g., brigades), but I think the pros outweigh the cons.

    • @hangonasecond
      1•1 year ago

      Not from kbin, arrived from all, but I wanted to point out there’s a distinction between

      • I care on a personal level that I was downvoted
      • I care about seeing the relative measure of this post from the community as a whole

      The removal of downvotes on different platforms is often done to address the former concern, i.e. I don’t content creators to get discouraged so I will take away the bad number.