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Why can’t the downvote feature just be invisible?

It’s used to curate our feeds, right? So why should anyone other than the downvoter have to see it? What’s the point in making users feel like their content isn’t welcome?

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Thank you everyone who commented to help me understand this situation! Unfortunately I’ve always been a little naive in the way I try to see the best in people. I do that to a fault and gave the admins the benefit of the doubt. So I was stumped when I saw this built in tool we could see specifically made to put people down. The excuse they gave was curating our feed, but that didn’t add up. If that was truly the point, then we wouldn't need to see it. You all helped point out that seeing it makes it an advertisement and tempts people to buy VIP so they can see who specifically downvoted. In other words, this harmful feature to the SW community that promotes, drama, trolling, and makes people feel bad is done purely for the sake of them profiting off your pain. It makes sense when you view it like this. Sad to see my reason for leaving was and still is justified.
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ChiefJustWalks · 26-30
I've only been downvoted a few times & I don't even care 😂

But the other day someone downvoted me & I noticed she made a post talking shit about me after so I simply blocked her 🤷 no harm no foul
Reject · 31-35, M
@ChiefJustWalks It’s good you don’t care. Staying strong, Chief. 💪🏽 I wish everyone could not be affected by this. It does bother people though, and those people spread their negativity and that makes a more toxic community overall which isn’t good for anyone. Even those of us who deal with it well. It’s better to not have to. When the reason for allowing that is money… that’s even more sad. It makes sense. I just wish people had kinder priorities.
ChiefJustWalks · 26-30
@Reject very true. There's a lot of people here who struggle with acceptance & I think it's messed up to allow a way for people to throw shade anonymously. I agree with the profiting off pain part you mentioned too. It's toxic if anyone were to buy VIP just to see who downvoted them when all that does is help them know where the judgement came from. People are naturally curious even if it hurts them. I may not care about the downvote feature but I certainly don't see any healthy reason it would need to be there
Reject · 31-35, M
@ChiefJustWalks That’s exactly right. All of that. You hit on the nail on the head. You know the main reason I left before was because of how much I didn’t like this feature and what it was doing to people here. Months later and they’ve made a couple polls ignoring how we feel, then updated it to be even worse. At least we never have to question why people are toxic on SW. They’re only given tools to exacerbate it.
Punches · 46-50, F
@ChiefJustWalks Honestly, the DV though is very tame compared to some of the things I have seen on forums. I been on a few that had sections set aside for people to flame and insult each other. Things people came up with were unreal.

Just how soft have people become that something like a downvote hurts their feelings?

Maybe I do not get easily hurt because during parts of you youth I had to deal with some extremely rude pricks, I dunno.