Advocating for a downvote as a disagreement button is advocating for a circlejerk and a hivemind. There is no other way around it. Downvotes hide posts. By downvoting posts that don't coincide with you're opinion you are hiding that persons ideas from view. That's they exact OPPOSITE point of the voting system. The point of the voting system is to make interesting and conversation-starting posts rise so other people can join in on the conversation. We don't want our website to descend to the circlejerk that reddit has become.
Nobody is 'crying that they have received a downvote'. We all know that we will get them from time to time. However, for us veterans, it does show that the culture is changing. These things just didn't really use to happen.
Newer members need to realize that this website is NOT reddit. It has a different site culture, It has different expectations of its users, and it stresses certain things like upvotes/downvotes way more than reddit. You are talking down to us as if we don't know how our own voting system works and as if we don't know how things are like over on reddit. We are fully aware that things are different on reddit. We have had a lot of intelligent discussion about the subject. A LOT of it. So, if you have suggestions or beef with Snapzu, then you should do it in a less condescending way. You know, not patronizing the community by saying 'my precious updoots'.
Yes. I think it's kind of unfair for anyone who is relatively or explicitly new to snapzu to tell seasoned users how the voting system is intended to work... as if someone build a "voting module" back in 2000 and every installation of it in a website since is required by said creator to operate in the same manner.
Advocating for a downvote as a disagreement button is advocating for a circlejerk and a hivemind. There is no other way around it. Downvotes hide posts. By downvoting posts that don't coincide with you're opinion you are hiding that persons ideas from view. That's they exact OPPOSITE point of the voting system. The point of the voting system is to make interesting and conversation-starting posts rise so other people can join in on the conversation. We don't want our website to descend to the circlejerk that reddit has become.
Nobody is 'crying that they have received a downvote'. We all know that we will get them from time to time. However, for us veterans, it does show that the culture is changing. These things just didn't really use to happen.
Newer members need to realize that this website is NOT reddit. It has a different site culture, It has different expectations of its users, and it stresses certain things like upvotes/downvotes way more than reddit. You are talking down to us as if we don't know how our own voting system works and as if we don't know how things are like over on reddit. We are fully aware that things are different on reddit. We have had a lot of intelligent discussion about the subject. A LOT of it. So, if you have suggestions or beef with Snapzu, then you should do it in a less condescending way. You know, not patronizing the community by saying 'my precious updoots'.
Yes. I think it's kind of unfair for anyone who is relatively or explicitly new to snapzu to tell seasoned users how the voting system is intended to work... as if someone build a "voting module" back in 2000 and every installation of it in a website since is required by said creator to operate in the same manner.
I think OP is just grouchy because they don't have enough calcium.