A month ago, you could tell that the shills had not arrived yet, at least not very many of them. You could post how much you thought the US government was corrupt, and how obvious blatant false flags were, and you would get dozens of upvotes and not a single downvote. You could talk about how GMOs are not 100% safe and how vaccines need to be given independent studies to verify their safety. No downvotes, lots of people agreeing with you.
But in the last few days, I've been seeing a lot more downvotes overall, and a lot more stifling of dissent. Sure, the general opinion is still "fuck the US government", but now instead of a post like that having +30 -0, it's now +30 -10. And those downvotes will surely only grow larger in the coming months.
They're here. And they're trying to manipulate public opinion here just like they did on Reddit. Be prepared.
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brother_tempus ago
I will have to concur ... the population of socialists, Marxists, progressives and other garden-variety authoritarians has grown .
personally I would only allow upvoats .. and nodownvoats
MrBunnyVest ago
That's actually a good idea, would you be willing to post it in the subverse for Voat ideas? Can you think of any downsides?
jaceame ago
When someone lies, they get a bunch of upvotes, the lie is found out, they get downvoted.
MrBunnyVest ago
Well, my thinking is that the issue is that people consistently use the downvoat as a disagree button. Take away the downvoat. Then only upvoated content moves to the front, if there is an issue, provide a way to take away the upvoat (that isn't downvoating). Good content moves forward, garbage stays where it belongs, we don't have to worry about assholes downvoating good posts to oblivion. Just brainstorming here, who knows what the answer is.
jaceame ago
I really think people have to realize that there are people that disagree with them though. If everything is positive than no matter how bad a post/comment it will still look accepted. This is how you end up with tumblr. But I agree most downvoats are done by people for bad reasons, but they still serve a purpose. I feel that the best way to take away upvoats with downvoats.
Zednix ago
Not being able to downvote garbage is the downside.