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.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

Typically, the things I disagree with are the things like bad faith arguments, lies, rudeness, or bigoted ideals that purport that not all humans deserve equal rights, etc.

[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 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 4 months 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 4 months ago

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