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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

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Is Reddit getting rid of down votes?!

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No, reddit is not removing downvotes. The post was alluding to when they removed displaying downvotes scores.

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Like, okay you down voted, we totally care and all, but no one will see it style?

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Well that’s depressing, I went over to seattle on old and it had a lot of content. It doesn’t show any votes if you’re not signed in.

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If so, that’s just hilarious.

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I suspect soon they’ll remove voting altogether, replaced by a measure of how long it held attention.

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Their ranking algorithm very clearly leans on a relative engagement metric pretty heavily, and has for a while.

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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.

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And tiktok

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Yes now that engagement is directly monetized, you’re likely correct

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And it happened right when it became apparent that we were living in the Disinformation Age and every bit of power to flag bullshit content became that much more important.

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