Twitter Expands Downvote Button Test Worldwide

[JM]

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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The Downvote Button

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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35 pages. 😱😵‍💫

But thanks for digging that up. It’ll be fun to read later!

 

[JM]

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.

One good example of bad reason for downvotes right there.

One good example of keeping downvotes.

Fence indeed!

I find downvoting antagonistic to a community of exchanging ideas, and camaraderie between those with like interests. “Hurt feelings”

If there were a way to filter and allow downvotes to only guide/advice posts/videos, that would be great.

But since that might be impossible, twitter removing the “hurt my feelings” downvotes, seems a better option overall for public discourse.

Tech reviews, yeah, needs a downvote, which is good for YouTube, but maybe not for twitter.

 

[bluespark]

I agree. I learn no matter how often I've just seen the stupidest thing possible, somebody will top it the next day...

LOL. Mine's not like that at all, but this made me laugh.

 

[siri_3005]

Don't know who would use Twitter at this point other than business stuff or memes.

Sign up for Gab.

Gab's pretty good, just wish they made their servers a bit faster.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

35 pages. 😱😵‍💫

But thanks for digging that up. It’ll be fun to read later!

No problem! The crazy thing is this was 10 years ago.

 

[MowgliWolf]

Woohoo another chance for the hate and bile brigade living in the Twitter sewer to **** on anything they disagree with while ducking the responsibility of providing valid arguments for it…

 

[turbineseaplane]

Woohoo another chance for the hate and bile brigade living in the Twitter sewer to **** on anything they disagree with while ducking the responsibility of providing valid arguments for it…

To be fair - that is basically the whole internet now

 

[maxoakland]

If that's the case, I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around how this benefits anyone except for Twitter's own marketing folks.

They use it to determine if they hide the tweet under “See more tweets"

 

[Nermal]

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.

Interesting you should say that, as I just sent YouTube feedback about this earlier today. It was about a month ago that I noticed the dislike count was missing, and as of today it's still missing. The thing that finally pushed me to send feedback was ending up on a clickbait video...

 

[Lcgiv]

are you a robot?

Beep boop

 

[adib]

Twitter just needs to start hosting videos and it can replace YouTube.

Tried that, didn’t work.

Remember Vine?

 

[Thebrochure]

Down-voting never works as intended.

 

[greenl1ght]

Every time I've tapped the downvote button on Twitter, it was by mistake since it just randomly shows up in the place the like button used to be due to the beta test nature of it...

 

[JM]

No problem! The crazy thing is this was 10 years ago.

Yeah, I noticed that too 🤣

 

[amartinez1660]

I read this as Twitter saying “we have rolled out a test where we found out that people use the dislike button when they dislike something” ?

 

[webkit]

They keep rolling out these "tests" and "upgrades", but you still can't edit a tweet once it's posted. Get the basics right, will you Twitter?

If you tweet something in error, you can always delete and then re-tweet a corrected version.

 

[webkit]

An issue with downvotes is that you don't always know why the content was downvoted as many tweets or posts can have multiple thoughts. For example, if someone tweets, "iPhones are the best smartphones made but are way overpriced" and gets downvoted, you don't know if it's a disagreement that iPhones are the best or disagreement that they are way overpriced or both.

 

[metapunk2077fail]

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.

Downvoting reduces visibility on a timeline. That's not a good feature. It happens on other platforms too. All posts should always be chronological.

 

[MowgliWolf]

To be fair - that is basically the whole internet now

Sadly this is so true, those trolls get fed left right and centre, even for minimum effort…

 

[turbineseaplane]

An issue with downvotes is that you don't always know why the content was downvoted as many tweets or posts can have multiple thoughts. For example, if someone tweets, "iPhones are the best smartphones made but are way overpriced" and gets downvoted, you don't know if it's a disagreement that iPhones are the best or disagreement that they are way overpriced or both.

Same issue with the downvotes here also, especially since more often than not folks using that button don’t elaborate on why they downvoted

 

[webkit]

Same issue with the downvotes here also, especially since more often than not folks using that button don’t elaborate on why they downvoted

I think a downvote/disagree option should only be enabled if the person is going to reply to the post.

 

[webdriverguy00]

They keep rolling out these "tests" and "upgrades", but you still can't edit a tweet once it's posted. Get the basics right, will you Twitter?

That’s not the point of a tweet. Pls get your basics right

 

[bwillwall]

Time to dislike some YouTube Tweets I suppose.

But what’s the point if no one, including the author of the tweet, sees how many dislikes their tweet has? That’s even more brain dead than on YouTube, how’s that even possible.

It's Twitter.

Big tech is all on the brain-dead spectrum, but Twitter will always be the worst.

 

[JM]

That’s not the point of a tweet. Pls get your basics right

What IS the point of a tweet? I’ve been trying to figure out its point for years. Doesn’t add anything of value from what I can tell, and has actually made society less tolerable.

 

[mjs916]

Twitter just needs to start hosting videos and it can replace YouTube.

I think you might be right but I doubt they want to pay for the massive amount of storage and backhaul they most certainly would need.

Time to dislike some YouTube Tweets I suppose.

But what’s the point if no one, including the author of the tweet, sees how many dislikes their tweet has? That’s even more brain dead than on YouTube, how’s that even possible.

Would it even matter on Twitter? It’s such a cesspool. People just spout opinions and inanities and mute the reactions because they have no intention of having open discussions or considering other points of view.