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I really hope this is really being used to help Twitter understand what conversation is valuable and it’s not there to divide people.
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Twitter Expands Downvote Button Test Worldwide
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I'm late to Reddit, and I've come to really appreciate it because it's the one place the comment section is actually worth reading. I'd attribute that to the downvote button.
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These posts will explain why. This was a huge topic. Big discussion!
Can we please remove the vote buttons?
I don't really disagree with anything that you've said. The voting system is still very primitive here so far. Showing the tally per user and the highest ranked people makes a lot of sense, and is an obvious step. But it will also instantly ignite a lot more drama with people competing for...
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What was the downvote button originally for, everyone keeps talking about it? As a matter of fact, what is the upvote button for?
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It all feels so outdated, upvotes and downvotes. I don’t use Twitter so maybe I don’t understand. 
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Remember “Poke” from Facebook? Now, that’s outdated 😆It all feels so outdated, upvotes and downvotes. I don’t use Twitter so maybe I don’t understand.
Exactly. It will be used to shout down viewpoints, sometimes just for the fun of it, other times to drown out an opposing view.
Slashdot does that as well, but you can chose to view all posts if you want or ignore those at a -1 level.
Off course, much downvoting is not to call out BS but to indicate disagreement. Look at the thumbs down votes here on MR, often they appear to be "I disagree" rather than "This is a bad post..."
I fear that is the future as well.
Bots, organized groups, etc. will downvote opposing viewpoints in hopes of drowning them out. If both sides of an issue do it enough they would cancel each other out as both would be unpopular.
Nah, Twitter is using it to stay relevant and make money. Users will weaponize it, though.
I wonder what happens when paying advertiser's tweets get downvoted in droves as part of a coordinated campaign?My guess is they will not be downvotable. Can't hurt the money stream...
…and other comforting lies you can tell yourself!
Of course they wouldn’t want to hurt the money stream, Twitter has difficulty monetizing their platform already. If enough big players left they’d go down the drain quickly.
It could benefit the person who is giving the down vote with a sense of pleasure. ?♂️
Those with different opinions get banned.
Further develop the algorithm to show you what Twitter wants you to see, instead of a simple chronological feed where you can choose what you want and don't want.
Sign up for Gab.
Reddit is the only thing I'm on. I look at any of the other free-for-all medias and it's like 20 posts saying the same thing over and over. Huh, I've never noticed the disappearing act. I'll have to pay more attention. What I'd like to see is you have to make a post and give an explanation as to why you are downvoting. That might smartin' things up a bit.
It's been stated a number of times why allowing someone to edit a tweet would be a bad idea.
Person tweets something that gets a lot of likes / supportive comments. An hour/day/week later, the person edits the tweet to something that's negative and would normally get down votes, but now there are a lot of likes and supportives comments attached to it.
The person/tweet the bots are downvoting won't know the tweet is being downvoted though. So what would be the point?
Did you not see this?
It's worth noting that the dislike button is only visible to the person who is viewing tweets – it is not a publicly available metric or visible to the author of the tweet. Twitter says that it is an internal tool that is designed to help Twitter understand what people think is valuable to a conversation.
I understand and support that viewpoint, but allowing editing for say, the first 10 minutes after posting could be easily programmed into the service and make it a bit less clumsy to use.
It depends on how Twitter uses the downvoting results. If they use it to shape what is presented to users then mass downvoting of similar viewpoints across the site would indicate "people don't want to see this..." and Twitter suppressing those Tweets in feeds, and what they show users in a "you might like this" format.
The "what people think is valuable to a conversation" part is key - it, to me, says twitter will use that to determine what people want to see, which means organized efforts can shape Twitter's decisions by target downvoting. Twitter may interpret the voting as a general consensus rather than the efforts of a handful of people pushing a narrative.
They could also delay liking a tweet until the editing prior ends.
Do you know how many likes, comments and retweets a post can get in the first 10 minutes?
Why not proof read what's written or think about what was written and be sure you want the world to see it before hitting the tweet button?
Twitter is whatever you want it to be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You decide what appears on your feed.
Mine? Few haha.
Because when I do post, it's usually when I'm bleary-eyed from lack of caffeine.
I get what you're saying about personal responsibility, though, so I'll tip my hat to you and move on...
I worry about this as well. One reason I far prefer Twitter to most social media is that it's easier to be exposed to a broader range of views on a particular issue (or, to put it in reverse, harder for the platform to feed you only what its algorithms want you to see). This seems to invite the algorithms to do exactly that.
Same solution as YouTube, which I DESPISE.
Since the last two months, I can no longer see the dislike count on a video. Before, I would calculate the like/dislike ratio and see if I was about to waste my time or not by watching the video. Or if it was scam. Nowadays, I can't. So I waste my time, and I get scammed.
MKBHD did a video on that, and he read my mind.
Since the last two months, I can no longer see the dislike count on a video. Before, I would calculate the like/dislike ratio and see if I was about to waste my time or not by watching the video. Or if it was scam. Nowadays, I can't. So I waste my time, and I get scammed.
MKBHD did a video on that, and he read my mind.
Right, I would ask what they hope to accomplish by this. It's always been controversial but you can see why bigger sites have opted against it, I'm personally on the fence, on one side it lets you know the content is low quality, on the other it can really promote and propagate hatred unnecessarily. Anyone who frequents Reddit has seen how people can pile on downvotes over the most trivial of things.
I agree. I learn no matter how often I've just seen the stupidest thing possible, somebody will top it the next day...