As both a commenter and poster.

  • snooggums@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    I prefer to see both up and down votes because there are a lot of situations where someone gets voted up fast with something that is not true, and someone who corrects them afterwards. The correction will end up with some upvotes and the original post will get some down votes, but all the people who voted for them early on aren’t likely to come back and change their votes.

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      7 months ago

      and as such, it’s sort of just an extra layer of information on top of the conversation, where things like body language and tone of voice are absent