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RE: In defense of the downvote option: not having it is the actual censorship

in #voting8 years ago

Even if delusional pollyana optimism rules the day here, and people upvote things for superficial reasons, and then fail to down-vote the superficial or delusional but "positive," the downvote feature is still essential. It's negative feedback, which increases Bayesian optimality or "intelligence."