Personally, I use downvotes to say "I disagree with this and/or it is a stupid/bad/bigoted/etc take, but I do not wish to spend the time and effort to respond and get dragged into a text-based mudfight with someone who is unlikely to speak to me politely, no matter how polite I try to be in my rebuttal."

I like having a way to say "no, bad, stop that" without having to spend time trying to explain things or engage with someone who I think is beyond convincing anyways.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

While it is easy to fall into this trap of disagree downvotes, they should really not be used that way. All that does is turn them into a popularity contest. Downvotes should be used on comments that do not improve the thread. This may be because they are wrong, made in bad faith, rude, or otherwise, but not simply because you disagree. Ideally we would have different buttons for this like the forums of old, but no one seems interested in that nowadays.

[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ideally we would have different buttons for this like the forums of old, but no one seems interested in that nowadays.

What buttons were them?

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Instead of up/down buttons you would have a set of buttons such as "Agree", "Disagree", "Funny", "Useful", etcetera. The only website I know of that still uses these is Ravelry.

[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ahh, that is a neat thought. Thanks for elaborating and sharing.

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