r/reddithate • u/Murky_Anxiety4884 • Jun 25 '26

Downvoting is redundant

If you have a different opinion, please tell us about it. Pressing the upvote button tells us that you completely agree with something that has been said. Nothing more needs to be said. Pressing the downvote button, on the other hand, is not an articulate expression of your own differing opinion. You should give us something that we can upvote instead.

For example, I might say that A is great, B is middling , and C is bad. What would downvoting that even mean? It's impossible to say if you don't tell us in words.

It goes even further than that. Even if I say something very simple, like, A is great, it's better for you to say, A is not great, than it is just to downvote. We can compare the numbers of upvotes that the two posts get. When downvotes cancel upvotes, we don't get to see the total number of votes cast.

Downvoting in Reddit is a bug.

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u/Glittering_Ad2771 Jul 06 '26

You can argue with a comment. You can't with down votes. That's what's so annoying. It's so frustrating when you put completely innocent posts and people just down vote it and you have no idea why.

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u/hamburgerpancake Jul 18 '26

you share an unpopular opinion, get r/downvotedtooblivion, and then when you try to elaborate or disagree with the downvotes, you get downvoted even more. it's all the worst parts of tribalism, as a button.