While I have in the past felt the emotional impact of passive negativity that down voting makes easy, I think down votes are an essential tool for online communities.
Look what happened to youtube when dislikes were removed.
Try to look for a very rare guide on how to fix something and you will be surprised.
The dislike button was crucial to give feedback to other users. Now instead looking at the like-dislike ratio, you need to lurk around the comments or even worse - waste your time watching unhelpful/wrong/meme guide
While I have in the past felt the emotional impact of passive negativity that down voting makes easy, I think down votes are an essential tool for online communities.
Look what happened to youtube when dislikes were removed.
Did dislikes on youtube ever do anything though?
yes, they told you if a video was low quality or misinfo
Also, we laughed at terrible movie trailers, but that was probably the reason that they took away downvotes.
Try to look for a very rare guide on how to fix something and you will be surprised. The dislike button was crucial to give feedback to other users. Now instead looking at the like-dislike ratio, you need to lurk around the comments or even worse - waste your time watching unhelpful/wrong/meme guide