Yes, this is more an argument for “don’t have downvotes at all” like hacker news or traditional forum.
Note I think your team has made the correct tradeoffs so far, this was more paying devils advocate.
Hacker news has downvotes, though they are locked behind a karma threshold, though overall I see more comments downvoted on HN than on LW or the EA Forum (you can identify them by the text being more greyish and harder to read).
Yes, this is more an argument for “don’t have downvotes at all” like hacker news or traditional forum.
Note I think your team has made the correct tradeoffs so far, this was more paying devils advocate.
Hacker news has downvotes, though they are locked behind a karma threshold, though overall I see more comments downvoted on HN than on LW or the EA Forum (you can identify them by the text being more greyish and harder to read).