• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    A bit confusing. Presumably you mean “after giving an upvote”. In other words, to disincentivize upvotes.

    Sounds like exactly the opposite of what would encourage friendly civil discourse: disincentivizing downvotes.

    Slashdot got this right decades ago. No upvotes, no downvotes, just tags. Such as “informative”, “insightful”, “funny”, and a couple of more negative ones like (IIRC) “provocative” or “controversial”, which at least force you to say why you’re promoting or hating on someone’s good-faith contribution. But apparently that was all just too complex for the simpletons we really are.