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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Upvotes and downvotes have always been glorified agree/disagree buttons.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

This is simply incorrect. It's true that they now evolved completely to that, but you are wrong stating that it was always like this. It's still in the reddiquette: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddiquette

Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.

This used to be understood that people often treated it as agree/disagree but that you are "supposed to be better than that". And that made a difference.

It's historic revisionism to say it was always like this because clearly there was discussion about this if you go just 10 years back: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/search/?q=downvote

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I was there. It was real. You're not crazy, a lot of us went by a kinda honor code for downvotes. You had to say something very irrelevant for me to downvote.

It was the best of times for internet forums.

Better discussions and the gags were limited and not belched out repeat jokes. Yes there were inside jokes but it wasn't like broken arms jackdaw molly rancher every damn thread. It got too popular and with that you drew the youtube comment types all trying to get the "funniest meta joke" per thread which translates to "most likes" for people not interested in genuine discussion. Couple that with echo chambers and astroturfing and well, now we're here.

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