When you're doom scrolling through a bunch of posts you've already seen trying to find a good post you missed, it's hard to know at a glance what you've seen or not. Of course if I've upvoted something I've seen it but I keep getting distracted by stuff I saw but DIDN'T upvote. It makes the whole doom scrolling experience worse not being able to mark a post as seen, but not approved. How do I know if a post without a vote is one I didn't like or one I haven't seen yet and might like? There just isn't a way so I keep accidentally re looking at posts I didn't like. It's bad folks.

This is.... literally the only good thing I can think of in defense of the downvote.

Perhaps we need a way to locally mark a post as seen but not approved to help doom scrollers like me focus on what really matters; new content to shitpost on, without being distracted by bad content that I don't want to engage in.

That's my rant. Any other defense of downvotes is wrong.

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[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth... While there is a bad post, I am in it, while there is a downvote element, I am of it, and while there is no downvote, I am not free...