Recently, many of our anti-Zionists posts have been downvoted to oblivion by liberals. As hexberians realized a while back, downvotes only help liberals since they are more numerous and they don’t need to engage in discourse. I am proposing to just get rid of downvotes and instead engage in discourse on content that we disagree on.
But wouldnt you guys know which comments are the problem ones based on reports?
Reports are helpful to mods yes (although ppl use them far less than downvotes, because just like a response, a report requires a reason), but since they’re invisible to other users, you have no choice but to respond with an essay, and drive up pointless engagement.
If anything, we should be giving users more ways to express their preference, not less. Big tech would love to do away with all forms of preference, but they keep upvotes because it at least is better than the hell of old-school forums where you had to read through hundreds of pages before you found helpful or interesting content.