It is a very ineffective way to create an echo chamber. Without being able to see the downvotes, you can't tell how many people disagree with the narrative. Discuss practically admitted as much when they removed the downvoting ability a couple years ago.
Facebook also used a very similar line of reasoning when they refused to add a thumbs down option for so long. The angry face addition is just ambiguous enough you can't always tell if someone is disagreeing with the poster, or the content, or the thing the poster themselves were upset about. So it gets cognitive dissonanced into whichever way you want it to be.
The left generally wants to convince you there is no alternate/flip side to anything.
Hence 'It's Okay to be White' gets the reaction it does from them. They can't fathom the concept of hypocrisy, it's Black and White and if they're right you must be wrong.
YouTube does this as well which pisses me off to no end. You click the thumbs up button and the total goes up. You click the thumbs down button and...nothing happens.
It makes a lot of ignorant opinions and statements stand out because, so far as I'm aware, you never actually lose points for someone disliking your comment.
It is a very ineffective way to create an echo chamber. Without being able to see the downvotes, you can't tell how many people disagree with the narrative. Discuss practically admitted as much when they removed the downvoting ability a couple years ago.
Facebook also used a very similar line of reasoning when they refused to add a thumbs down option for so long. The angry face addition is just ambiguous enough you can't always tell if someone is disagreeing with the poster, or the content, or the thing the poster themselves were upset about. So it gets cognitive dissonanced into whichever way you want it to be.
The left generally wants to convince you there is no alternate/flip side to anything.
Hence 'It's Okay to be White' gets the reaction it does from them. They can't fathom the concept of hypocrisy, it's Black and White and if they're right you must be wrong.
YouTube does this as well which pisses me off to no end. You click the thumbs up button and the total goes up. You click the thumbs down button and...nothing happens.
It makes a lot of ignorant opinions and statements stand out because, so far as I'm aware, you never actually lose points for someone disliking your comment.