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My thoughts on downvotes
By Lyde, history, 5 years ago, In English

(Sorry guys for problems about the first blog, I hope it won't happen this time)

Hi guys!

Today I will be talking about downvotes.

And anyone thinks that I write this blog is because of my comments, then you are correct!

But today we won't talk about my comments. I don't care about my comment that much. Downvotes are ok.

cry inside...

So why there are downvotes?

People downvote a comment or blog mostly because of bad content.

Some of them downvote comments or blogs just because of THEY LIKE IT.

And in my opinion, when a comment (or blog) has a bunch of downvotes, people will start a movement, and start downvoting the comments, either they are good or bad.

My opinion about downvotes

I think that downvotes are ok. If you think that the comment is bad, downvote it. Even my comment. That's fine.

But, if you downvote (or even upvote) a comment based on the movement, you should stop.

Because you just vote the vote that they don't deserve.

And also, if you downvote someone if they already had like, 5 downvotes, then everyone would think that comment/blog suck.

For some comment posters, It would make them unhappy. And even worse, they would be heartbroken and alone.

(I said too much.)

Furthermore, it will affect the poster's contribution, and if they have a negative contribution, they might be hated, or even alone.

So, vote properly. See the whole blog/comment, and then decide to vote.

Before I stop this blog, I want to show you a Codeforces issue.

(well this issue is in fact a feature that I didn't know, sorry guys)

All done!

I hope you enjoyed this blog!

And once again, if you upvote or downvote something, think back and see all of that comment/blog and then decide.

If you vote based on the movement, please stop. Vote properly.

Thank you for reading!

Any accepted upvote or downvote, and comments are welcome!

And finally, this blog will have a lot of downvotes for sure. I know it because I might hurt someone or people will start a movement to downvote my blog. That's ok, I don't care.

Love you all!!!

BYE!!!

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We all know that this blog will have so many downvotes. I don't say it just for me, but for all people who have downvotes or downvoted me.

I hope you guys will forgive me and vote more properly.

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I don't understand it. When you downvote a comment with 0 votes, then the number of downvotes stays 0, That's true. But how does this cause the "movement" mentioned in your blog? If people can't see comments with vote ranging from -1 to -5, then it can prevent users from downvoting comments just because they have negative votes, and I guess this is a feature but not an issue

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comments with voting from -1~-5 are shown as 0

This is an intended feature, which tried to prevent "Followed downvoting"

Usually if you answer other's question, you are more likely to get more upvote.

So you can try to answer newbies' questions.

Memes can make your contribution grow fast, but that would be (a bit) fake.

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    Thanks. I didn't know about that feature. I will fix my blog later.

    You deserve a +1 from me. Underrated comment.

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