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DroidKnight 2 days ago
Zkuq said:
firebush03 said:

Getting rid of the downvote option on article posts has to be one of the greatest changes to this site. It feels so much less like a warzone now lol.

I agree. Bad comments don't tend to get a lot of upvotes and those few that do aren't really much of a problem. I've missed the option to downvote some of the actually bad posts myself, but much less than I've enjoyed not having to worry who's going to downvote my comment not because it's bad but because the other party simply disagrees with it.

Pretty sure my view is not going to be a popular one.  I'm on the opposite side.  Reading the article was half the enjoyment for me and then seeing the back and forth in the comments section with the upvotes and downvotes was the other half of the enjoyment.  Since the time that down votes have been removed, I've only bothered to read maybe 5 articles since.  



...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.

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Zkuq 2 days ago
DroidKnight said:
Zkuq said:

I agree. Bad comments don't tend to get a lot of upvotes and those few that do aren't really much of a problem. I've missed the option to downvote some of the actually bad posts myself, but much less than I've enjoyed not having to worry who's going to downvote my comment not because it's bad but because the other party simply disagrees with it.

Pretty sure my view is not going to be a popular one.  I'm on the opposite side.  Reading the article was half the enjoyment for me and then seeing the back and forth in the comments section with the upvotes and downvotes was the other half of the enjoyment.  Since the time that down votes have been removed, I've only bothered to read maybe 5 articles since.  

I don't think the back and forth stuff is supposed to be engaging content though, nor do I think it makes for a healthy community to have that as part of the enjoyment. Anyway, I get your point. I also know a lot of people were opposed to removing downvotes, so you're definitely not alone either.