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I used to downvote fairly often on Reddit as a sign to disagree or to push down really disgusting bigoted comments. And to be honest, it became a habit to just downvote without replying. However, now that Iโ€™m on lemmy and not Reddit Iโ€™ve been actively trying to not instantly downvote things and instead move on or take the time to reply. Has anyone else been trying to do this?

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[โ€“] makanimike@feddit.de 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[โ€“] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah it wasn't made for disagreement, it was meant for a crowd control form of moderation. That's why they had the karma index and allow for subreddits to impose karma restrictions. (I guess there could be an argument about it being a form of social credit system if it were, which let's be honest it became that anyway, whether or not it was intended to be that way from the beginning)

[โ€“] Andreas@feddit.dk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Discussions became binary". And yet you subscribe to the binary of "hateful vs. non-hateful opinion" as if it's clearly identifiable.

[โ€“] makanimike@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, I am fairly sure that, legally speaking, there is a requirement for organizations to identify that by many jurisdictions.
Regardless, there is a difference in that I am not interested in being the judge. I don't downvote at all.

But you can have that gotcha. one point for you!

[โ€“] Andreas@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

Hate speech laws in real life are also very ambiguous and rarely stand alone in court without another more easily proven charge.

Upvote to you too anyway, although I'm still guilty of using downvote as a disagree button.