Wit@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What happens to downvotes when instances have different policies?
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1 year agoI respectfully disagree. Downvotes add a way of gauging the percent of people who support/don’t support a comment. Let’s say I’m asking for advice about which product to buy. With an upvotes-only system the upvote count is biased towards the earliest comment, whereas with an up/down vote system, the ratio helps you detect comments with heavy bias or blatantly wrong facts. So an upvote/downvote system makes it easier to tell the credibility of a comment, basically allowing you to indirectly gauge the opinion of the community rather than the one person who commented.
From Library of Ruina. The song “And Then Is Heard No More” from the OST touches on similar themes, go look up the lyrics if you’re intrigued