Prediction: Reddit will someday remove the downvote from all posts. : reddit

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Prediction: Reddit will someday remove the downvote from all posts. (lemmy.world)

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I am predicting that before the company goes bankrupt, Reddit will remove downvotes in an effort to prevent users from expressing negative sentiment. This happened a few years ago on YouTube after YouTube Rewind became the world's most disliked video, several years in a row. This was embarrassing for the company because it revealed the discontent of the userbase.

Since expressing discontent is bad for their reputation, and manually removing dislikes is a time consuming task, removing the downvote button altogether for the sake of "preventing bullying" is likely the next step for Reddit.

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[–] psycrow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

One thing i love about lemmy and kbin is that up votes and down votes are separate and visible. The only other semi successful reddit clone that did this was voat, and I'm glad that shithole site is dead. Rest in racist peices.