Oh, fuck off. You've posted this in multiple threads already. Stop spamming the same paragraph over and over again. No one cares. You will change nothing.

Guys, this is all he ever comments. It's spam. Report, downvoat, and move on

It's funny how I've had to re-read this post multiple time to finally understand what you meant but after dealing with a bad day, I finally get it.

Here's to step one of being a more active user.

Exactly. Hacker News only allows upvotes, and it seems quite civilized. I don't care much about the scores either way though.

VOAT PLEASE BE Up July 10th. I know winter is coming but I promise not all of us wildlings happen to be trolls. We seek a new home. For me I just want a place to discuss the news uncensored. Please allow the Forum to prosper.

Can you stop fucking spamming this everywhere you fuckstick?

You seem very angry. You should calm down and stop being so mean.

Can you clarify what SRS is exactly?

And while we're at it, let's remove the scores from the profiles so keyboard warriors who are already socially retarded don't start jerking off to their fake internet power.

That's easily done with CSS on a per subverse basis.

Would be nice if there was a way to force people to read the content before voting too. But I don't think there is a way that would actually be possible....unless we do some Clockwork Orange shit to force them to read stuff.

I agree with most of what you said but I like seeing my karma. It makes me feel nice to see that people are interested in the same things I am and I think that adds some incentive to post worth while content. I do think that more people downvote than upvote but I can't see a system where one exists without the other. If there were only upvotes then this would be Facebook.

Better yet, DON'T FUCKING KEEP THE POINTS NEXT TO THE PROFILE. Just keep the upvotes in the thread and don't carry it on, so people don't constantly make up fake annoying shit just for upvotes.

I disagree, but this system where you have to participate and use voat for a bit, not just lurk and have access to downvoats it pretty good.

You again!

I sort of agree with you, but a few points need to be brought up. I also feel that most people will only downvoat if they are particularly butthurt about a comment, this is a problem with having a downvoat system. However, while this can censor some particularly good content that is just an unpopular opinion, it is also a working method to send trolls the bottom of the page and discredit them. If you want to see what a place looks like without a good working downvote system, take a look at the wasteland of the YouTube comments section. Comment wars are rampant and the "uneducated" are still allowed a vote and even might be considered to have a greater effect. This may also be the reason copy pasta comments like the "This comment is damn fancy" still pop up and are heavily upvoted. So I sort of agree with you, but I have a few counterpoints.

I can hardly begin to tell you how wrong you are - of course Bill Gates' vote should weigh as heavily as the homeless persons; no more, no less. That's the point of democracy. When you let an "educated" elite decide what's best for everybody, they do what's best for themselves, and fuck the rest.

Regarding voating, regardless of whether or not you allow downvoating, the dumb masses are going to decide who gets the most visibility. Countless sites without downvoting have shown that this just leads to the most popular contributors getting ahead, regardless of the quality of their submissions.

Agree

So I just registered to tell you that you are confusing "censorship" with people's free will and their right to ignore instructions and do as they please.

Pretty much everywhere (on the other place) there are pop-ups informing that the downvote button is NOT to be used as a "I disagree" or "I don't like your opinion" button, but people ignore that. They can, because they have the right to.

Censorship, on the other hand, is the suppression of free speech. If you write about all the shadowy, not really explained things in the life of a certain CEO and her husband and that information is deleted (even though it's relevant to the discussion and does not contain false accusations), THAT'S when you can talk about censorship.

You got it wrong, SRS took over the site because rules were applied unevenly. Either nobody should be able to brigade or everybody should be able to. When you allow only on sect to flip votes and raid subforums you are going to have issues. If people could retaliate, then things would of reached equilibrium.

Good hypothesis. Do you have any evidence to support it, or is this just conjecture?

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First of all, no, everyone's voat should be the same. I mean, who's gonna decide who gets a voat and who doesn't?

Second, downvoats stop bad ideas that a few fanatics are in favour of from being considered the same as good ideas that every reasonable person is in favour of but nobody's particularly interested in.

Good ideas aren't always exciting and so won't get many voats, so we need to be able to downvoat the bad ones.

Look, our entire political system should make it more practical. We don't let everyone vote in elections for a good reason: we know that retards are the majority of people.

I almost stopped reading after that. I hope this post is a joke.

Downvoting has its merits, it mitigates the spreading of bullshit and FUD. Facebook for instance is full of that. I am not saying that downvoting does not have its downsides, but I reckon they are more than eclipsed by its advantages.

permit me to disagree.

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THIS is how you fight censorship; by holding OPEN, LIVE debates that CAN'T be censored by some cowardly keyboard warrior.

Facebook figured this out a long time ago.