"Another [option] is requiring more granularity when someone downvotes," Leung says.
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As of this writing, the comment has more than 280k downvotes.
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Looking back on previous title-holders for Worst Comment, there's the time Reddit's CEO admitted to clandestinely editing user comments (11,537 net downvotes) and the one where Jill Stein sounded off on nuclear energy (11,996 net downvotes).
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YouTube's "Rewind" video for 2018 is the most disliked video in the platform's history (more than 13 million downvotes as of writing), beating out Justin Bieber's "Baby" — which previously held the record with more than 10 million downvotes.
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And yet, the game's reveal trailer has an astonishing 3,300,000 downvotes on YouTube.
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Those with upvotes could have been stopped by others with equally powerful downvotes. Fallacy.
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At the time this update is being written, the Heroes announcement video has 197,812 downvotes.
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They can also make suggestions for improvement this way, which in turn get up- or downvotes.
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Non-public content could have also been accessed, such as answer requests, downvotes, and direct messages.
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Anyone who takes it too far as to say all women are like this gets downvotes.
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At the time of writing, the posting had a total score (upvotes minus downvotes) of over -394,000.
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Yes, it's true: Those numbers on the site aren't just "upvotes minus downvotes" or anything so simple.
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The hackers also obtained details about users' activity on Quora, such as questions, answers, upvotes and downvotes.
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However, look at the video on YouTube and there's something surprising: a hell of a lot of downvotes.
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According to Ars Technica, users flooded the video's comment section with vitriol and downvotes, prompting Verizon to disable comments.
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Attackers potentially know what questions you've asked, what answers you've given, upvotes and downvotes, answer requests and direct messages.
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Reddit relies on a system of upvotes and downvotes; a comment you agree with may earn an upvote, and vice versa.
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The number is determined by adding up all the downvotes the comment received and then subtracting from that figure any upvotes.
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The second most-downvoted comment only has under 89,000 downvotes, thanks to a Reddit user literally asking people to downvote the comment.
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Hill's apology doesn't appear to be convincing viewers; the video has a pretty even split of upvotes to downvotes as of this writing.
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Upvotes are the equivalent of Facebook's likes, and in conjunction with downvotes, are used to determine the relevancy of a post or comment.
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Moderating an online community spread across numerous platforms and countries can be a challenging task — especially when slipping up means more than angry downvotes.
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Paul has since apologized for his actions in Japan (the video of his apology currently has 2.2 million downvotes) but continues to be, well, himself.
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One the music videos for his song called "It's Everyday Bro" is the third-most-disliked video on YouTube, with over 4.4 million thumbs downvotes.
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YouTuber General Makaba probably said it best in the comments for the referral contest's official video announcement, which currently has 991 downvotes versus 305 upvotes.
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We picked out the top answers, based on the number of points — a combination of upvotes and downvotes by fellow reddit users — the store received.
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How YouTube's Year-in-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War Kevin Roose explore why YouTube's year-end content marketing video triggered an apocalypse of downvotes.
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The deployment of downvotes, even on a limited scale, comes after years of rumors of a "dislike" button, which the company itself has helped fuel through mixed messages.
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EA's comment eclipses these by a mile with 263,000 net downvotes and counting, likely more people than are currently running the open beta of Star Wars Battlefront 543.
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It's designed as a way to give feedback to Facebook, not the commenter, and there will be no publicly visible count of how many downvotes a comment gets.
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Selling ships below cost and elbowing through proper etiquette by privately messaging people to undercut deals in progress may have earned me some downvotes, but it was effective.
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An ad placed by Warner Brothers Records was seen as too pandering and gleefully downvoted into obscurity (Imgur also features a Reddit-like voting system of upvotes and downvotes).
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Though his response has been viewed more than 41 million times, it's received more than 2.7 million downvotes (compared to around 579,000 upvotes) — likely not the kind of ratio he wanted.
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The reaction from the YouTube community is openly hostile; there are more than 250,000 downvotes on the video at the time of this writing — nearly 100,000 more than those who upvoted it.
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The rules in question were created to prevent spammers or vote manipulators from seeing exactly how their efforts were affecting a given post — they changed the number based on hidden variables defined by Reddit, "fuzzing" the upvotes and downvotes.
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If he did that same thing on Reddit, he might get the same 50,000 upvotes, but he'd also probably get a million downvotes, and I think that'd be a really clear message that what you're saying is not welcome here.
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Update 11/13/17 2:22pm ET: Not only is EA's comment nearing 400,000 downvotes, but it appears to have broken the voting UI on mobile for some users, who are reporting that the upvote button is now cut off.
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By default, it rewards popular opinions, with an algorithm that sorts the "best" comments according to the number of "upvotes" they receive measured against the "downvotes"—in other words, users vote for statements they like and against ones they don't.
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" On Reddit, moderators have the option to hide comment scores and vote numbers in an effort to "try to reduce the initial bandwagon/snowball voting, where if a comment gets a few initial downvotes it often continues going negative, or vice versa.
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Klein elaborated and even went as far as commenting directly on the toxic culture of Riot that was first made public by the Kotaku report in a comment that received thousands of downvotes: I really, really hope someone here will make the connection.
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Even if you assume the 400,000-plus downvotes on Reddit equals the number of fans who now won't buy the game, that's still a fraction of the original Battlefront's estimated 12 million in sales — a very successful start — across the game's opening months.
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Reddit, the website best known for its use of both positive and negative signaling, has shown mixed results from studies where downvotes were hidden from other users, and a number of communities opt to turn the feature off to prevent mass-downvoting (called brigading) of controversial content.
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In a Reddit chat linked to the r/community_chat subreddit — the hub for the new chat feature — redditors discussed if the rooms would lead to more or less harassment and if the team should add upvotes, downvotes and karma to chat to make it more like Reddit's normal threads.
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"While the post did receive many upvotes initially, it was also one of the most controversial posts ever on Reddit, and received nearly as many downvotes," Huffman, who uses the username "Spez" on Reddit, wrote on a post to r/the_donald explaining why Trump's AMA fell out of the most popular post rankings.
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In that regard, it's similar to the approach that Facebook has been taking with regards to offensive posts and outright fake news: rather than expecting or hoping that its algorithm can identify everything accurately, it's also trying out upvotes and downvotes on comments, and currently works with third parties to fact check and flag news.
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On r/EnoughTrumpSpam, two separate posts depicting a cartoon version of Trump with a tiny penis got enough support to find their way onto r/all, while Trump's actual AMA was kicked off r/all because it got enough downvotes (as well as thousands upon thousands of upvotes) to push it out of the ranking.
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One theory as to why posts from there end up on top of /r/all is is that the moderators of the pro-Trump page have disabled Reddit's down arrow, meaning that they've gotten rid of any sort of negative feedback mechanism (It's worth noting that the pro-Hillary Clinton subreddit doesn't have downvotes enabled either.) Another theory is that the subreddit is incredibly well run and closely moderated.
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Content is rated using upvotes and downvotes, and can be reported to the moderators if it breaks the on-site rules or plagiarizes other works.
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In itself, the availability of a downvote will probably result in a significantly higher rate of voter participation, especially in a climate of political polarization, public skepticism or disapproval of current political elite. Moreover, the existence of downvotes further diminishes the electoral strength of extremism and populists, as they provide an important mean to filter notoriously corrupt and criminal actors from a political system. Since number of downvotes is strictly limited the results of large-scale experimental studies demonstrate that downvotes are not generally used in retaliatory manner. Moreover, overall on average 56.1% of voters in the experiments exercised the right of casting a downvote.
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A voting system follows the method described herein if and only if: Each voter is allowed to cast up to P ≥ W (plus) upvotes and up to M (minus) downvotes, where P ≥ 2M (i.e., number of upvotes has to be at least twice as large as the number of downvotes), and P ≤ T/2. In most cases, it's recommended to use P ≥ 2W (optimizing the effect of more votes) and P ≤ T/3. Each voter can cast no more than one vote for any candidate.
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Following the announcement, Activision Blizzard's stock fell 7% on the first weekday of trading. As of June 20, 2020, the two official trailers on YouTube stand at 338 thousand downvotes to 26 thousand upvotes for the gameplay trailer, and 760 thousand downvotes to 31 thousand upvotes for the cinematic trailer. Previews of the game's demo approved of the game's controls, its interface having been tested by prior NetEase games, though Polygon reviewer noted difficulties in precision controls. The locked abilities made some character classes less enjoyable to play; for example, the Wizard's long cast times and cooldown timers made the class less effective in groups.
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Unlike Digg, with Reddit, users can directly affect an article's score. An "upvote" will increase the score and a "downvote" will decrease it. Articles with the highest scores are displayed on the front page. There is also a page for "controversial" articles, that have an almost equal number of upvotes and downvotes.
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Hence the option of expressing a disapproval by casting a downvote with set forth limiting parameters did not results in increased polarization of electorate (voters in our experiments). On the contrary, the majority of voters representing different ideological positions reached consensus in their casting of downvotes for the same candidates. The latter phenomenon requires further investigation.
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Every article on the wiki is assigned a discussion page, where members can evaluate and provide constructive criticism on submitted stories. The discussion pages are frequently used by authors to improve their stories.Newsom, p. 154 Members also have the ability to "upvote" articles they like and to "downvote" articles they dislike; articles that receive too many net downvotes are deleted.
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The site's beta version received largely negative critical reception. John Semley of The Guardian wrote that the website "feels very much like a pay-to-play Jordan Peterson fan site". Brian Feldman of Intelligencer criticized Peterson for the website's mechanic of hiding comments which receive downvotes, calling it "ironic given the professor's stance as a free- speech absolutist". Tom McKay of Gizmodo found the website's design "headache- inducing".
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Despite one post to the contrary, Taylor's dismissal was widely attributed to Pao, with some commentators suggesting that the move diminished her credibility as an advocate for female employees. She received increased harassment as a result and the petition for her removal surpassed 200,000 signatures. On July 3, Pao issued apologies through Reddit and Time magazine. However, the Reddit post was thought to have been deleted after it received enough downvotes to lose visibility.
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The site's content is divided into categories or communities known on-site as "subreddits", of which there are more than 138,000 active communities. As a network of communities, Reddit's core content consists of posts from its users. Users can comment on others' posts to continue the conversation. A key feature to Reddit is that users can cast positive or negative votes, called upvotes and downvotes respectively, for each post and comment on the site.
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The basic features of the voting method presented herein is that the voter can identify in a single ballot more than one preference by applying systematically capped multiple votes. This principal introduces a new dimension to the voting methodology. It permits voters to cast multiple votes that are either upvotes or downvotes. The number of upvotes have to be at least twice the number of seats to be filled in the election.
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As of 2017, users could sort comments and posts in a subject by time or score. Default biographies for new users displayed a randomly chosen quotation about the importance of free speech. Users also had the option to "mute" other users and terms. In July 2017, Gab implemented a system where people who downvoted others (through spamming) would have their accounts downvoted as well and their ability to leave downvotes would be revoked.
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The intention was to recreate a community similar to the early days of Reddit. However, unlike Reddit where new users can immediately both upvote and downvote content, Hacker News does not allow users to downvote content until they have accumulated 501 "karma" points. Karma points are calculated as the number of upvotes a given user's content has received minus the number of downvotes. "Flagging" comments, likewise, is not permitted until a user has 30 karma points.
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The category was pet pictures and gifs for pets. The voting system's icons of "Upvotes", "Downvotes", and "Favorite" (arrows facing up and down, and a heart, respectively) were changed into paws facing up and down and a bone, respectively. In April 2019 Imgur made yet another April Fools' Day joke by adding the "Meh" button along with the pre-existing "Upvote", "Downvote", and "Favorite" icons. The "Meh" button would vote neither up nor down a post, effectively giving it a +0.
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Downvotes were later removed entirely, with Gab's then-COO Utsav Sanduja explaining that they were being used to troll and to harass women, and that: "there were a lot of social justice warriors and members of the far left coming into our site essentially trying to start a brouhaha." In 2018, the default profile picture for new users to the site featured NPC Wojak, a meme popular on far-right sites. A frog named "Gabby" was Gab's logo from 2016 to 2018. The logo has been compared to Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character appropriated by the alt-right.
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The number of upvotes or downvotes determines the posts' visibility on the site, so the most popular content is displayed to the most people. Users can also earn "karma" for their posts and comments, a status that reflects their standing within the community and their contributions to Reddit. The most popular posts from the site's numerous subreddits are visible on the front page to those who browse the site without an account. By default for those users, the front page will display the subreddit r/popular, featuring top-ranked posts across all of Reddit, excluding not-safe-for-work communities and others that are most commonly filtered out by users (even if they are safe for work).
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In February 2015, Yik Yak was exposed for systematically downvoting and deleting posts that mention competitors. The automatic system downvoted and deleted any posts that contained words that associated with names of other apps used by university students, including "fade," "unseen," "erodr," and "sneek." The downvoting algorithm, which assigned downvotes on regular intervals until the posts were deleted, appeared to be designed to mislead users to thinking that their posts were unpopular amongst peers, rather than censored by Yik Yak itself. In December 2015, the SLOG and the Seattle Times reported that a Western Washington University student had been arrested and released on bail after calling for the lynching of the student body president of the university.
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