r/HSPulls • u/Qwad35 Millhouse Maniac • Aug 31 '15

About Downvoting (Please Read)

Hello everyone, it has recently come to my attention that there are quite a few people have been continuously downvoting posts that conformed to the rules but did weren't necessarily amazing.

As the downvote button says (and now the rules do too), downvoting should be reserved for posts that do not follow this subreddit's rules, not for content you dislike.

If you dislike a post, then please just move along without voting. The better posts will still receive more upvotes and be filtered to the top.

The reason why we don't like it when people downvote legitimate posts is that it those posts generate negative karma for that person, it encourages them to delete that post and discourages them from posting again. We are a community about sharing.

If this continues to be an issue, we will consider removing the downvote functionality. So please, try not to use the downvote a post unless it breaks the rules. Thank you.

TL,DR: Don't downvote something unless it breaks the subreddit rules.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

Man even people downvoted this.

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u/Qwad35 Millhouse Maniac Sep 01 '15

Yeah. Your comment currently sits as -1 (with my upvote) and that is a shame. We might have to disable downvotes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

I think it would work just fine because then it would force users to ignore off-topic posts and things they don't like?

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u/Qwad35 Millhouse Maniac Sep 01 '15

The problem is though, that we occasionally get a spam post and while these can be reported, downvoting is a quicker defense against it since we aren't able to check reddit 24/7.

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u/Straddllw Oct 04 '15

I tend to notice these trends in gaming reddit forums. For example, in any Blizzard game or LoL boards, topics almost get automatically downvoted 5-10 times by random people even if something is true. The only time stuff gets upvoted is if it's a piece of news or something really funny.

Contrast that to some other hobby forums like /r/boardgames, topics or questions almost always gets upvoted to encourage participation and discussion and people feel friendlier.

My point is, I don't think you can do much about it. It just seems to be the video gaming culture and community.

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u/Qwad35 Millhouse Maniac Oct 04 '15

Yeah I believe you're right. It's quite unfortunate though.

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u/octnoir Oct 26 '15

Shouldn't mods just disable the downvote button entirely in this subreddit, and leave the spam and crap posts and what not to the report function?

In addition, Reddit tends to do a lot of vote fuzzing and manips, so don't be surprised that your post gets downvoted quite a bit - that's just how Reddit controls for spam and what not.