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Removing downvoting feels intuitively wrong to me (eg, I believe that dissent is a really important part of a healthy democracy). If all those mega-corp platforms are removing downvoting, then I’m pretty confident my intuition on this matter is correct
No, reddit is not removing downvotes. The post was alluding to when they removed displaying downvotes scores.
Like, okay you down voted, we totally care and all, but no one will see it style?
I suspect soon they’ll remove voting altogether, replaced by a measure of how long it held attention.
The voting will stay but your homepage will be a for you page that selects posts based on your usage data and whatever is trending instead of the votes, in an attempt to bring engagement to a maximum. Just like what’s been happening to Instagram for years.
