Should Product Hunt have a "downvote" feature?
Manoj Radhakrishnan
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It is always a great experience to participate in community discussions when it is on-topic, well researched and thought provoking.
Should Product hunt have a "downvote" feature for users to improve quality of content?
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Krishnaswamy Anand Ganesh@krishnaswamy_anand_ganesh
But aren't upvotes also functioning as downvotes. By comparing upvotes of two different products/ discussions. It easy to get a sense of which is liked more / is popular.
In fact having a clear downvote button helps get a market sense of how many people like vs don't like. People launch product for feedback and not solace or compliments.
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No, I feel every content is unique in it's own way but I agree to some extent that downvote kind of alerts the author about his views.
No no. Downvote would be a really bad idea. Every product is definitely unique on its own.
Downvotes are a bad idea. If you don't like something, just keep going.
I think the only website where downvotes make sense is StackOverflow, to prevent bad advice from spreading.
I don’t prefer any demotivation.
No down voting for products for sure.
Downvoting is controversial even in discussion threads and bound to be abused.
Depends on the community I guess. A community like PH is more geared towards boosting good products (as opposed to bringing down controversial ones) so it makes sense to not have downvotes. A community like Reddit for example, on the other hand is more for expressing opinions so it makes sense to have downvotes there.
I don't think Product Hunt should have a downvote feature.
I think that the entire point of Product Hunt is to help people find new products, and it's already hard enough to filter through all of them. If we had a way to downvote, then it would make it even harder for people to find the good stuff.
Let's share only positivity.