I am predicting that before the company goes bankrupt, Reddit will remove downvotes in an effort to prevent users from expressing negative sentiment. This happened a few years ago on YouTube after YouTube Rewind became the world’s most disliked video, several years in a row. This was embarrassing for the company because it revealed the discontent of the userbase.
Since expressing discontent is bad for their reputation, and manually removing dislikes is a time consuming task, removing the downvote button altogether for the sake of “preventing bullying” is likely the next step for Reddit.
Yeah, that’s the only way spaz will be able to post ever again
I’m not so sure of that… the number of people protesting the protests over there is a LOT higher than I expected, and between the troll army and their mechanized bot squads, he may have more upvotes than people alive on earth today in order to counter all the downvotes (especially with a little help from his friends, the admins:-).
That could be really funny to watch actually - downvote any two of his comments and “your account must have been hacked, so we’re banning you forever until we can sort this out”.