What should I use it for?
In case of posts - should I downvote things that I don’t agree with? Or things that I don’t want to see in my feed (posts with low amount of votes fell more to the bottom)? Or things that I consider harmful/stupid/younameit?

In case of comments - should I downvote something that I don’t agree with? When should I use this button in case of comments. Or maybe I should not - cause what’s the point, actually?

  • Stoned_Ape
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    4 years ago

    What do you mean with “comparisons”?

    If someone gives less stars than others on amazon, it pushes all the scores down

    Exactly. That’s the problem at hand. This happens even when the person giving less stars actually intended to rate the item positively, but he simply interpreted the system differently than others. The same applies vice versa.

    This is an old and refuted critique of range voting

    Can you supply sources for that? The only sources I’ve read a few years back detailed the problems of such systems. Maybe something different was found out since then?

    which approval voting (which this uses), is a subset.

    And there are many critics of that system. I’ve laid out some arguments against this system in this thread, and the other thread where I’ve asked a similar question a while back. The main argument would be the formation of echo chambers and an erosion of quality contribution.