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.

  • Markimus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I appreciate the upvote-downvote system more on Lemmy, as even if your comment gets disliked you can still see that some people agree with you. That information is not lost.

    In the reddit scenario where that information is lost, you end up with group-think. People see a large amount of dislikes and go “comment bad, dislike.”