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I think of downvotes and upvotes as head nods, and head shakes.

Head nods and head shakes are not constructive criticism.

Removing the ability to give low effort or low quality criticism would encourage us to put effort into real criticism, no?

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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day ago

it seems to have worked pretty well for hexbear, though i prefer to have both up and downvotes personally