this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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What are the advantages of downvotes anyway? If somebody breaks the rules, you can report them. If nothing is done about it, you can leave a community. If you dislike most of the content of an user or a community, you can give your negative feedback or block them. If you think somebody is wrong on some subject, you can correct them.
Sure, to be honest it feels good to press the downvote button on a comment or post I dislike, but I could live without it.
I mostly downvote when I think the comment is so wrong or bad but I have a feeling that commenting a response means a long drawn out back and forth that ends up being unproductive and me taking a lot of abuse.
I don’t have votes visibly on my app client though so even when I do it I don’t actually see the vote totals.