Whether dislikes, especially from an unknown walk-by, have a stronger emotional effect than likes. (And whether this varies by gender and anonymity of the attacker.)
What subset of posts tend to attract dislikes. (I could easily see questions and things like that attracting dislikes because they don't add general utility and then one dickhead comes by and decides to spit on someone for being ignorant/learning.)
Whether when people dislike something they're really just trying to make it less visible.
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Though, since we're really talking about something's size in the search space, if people just ignore it it has more or less the same practical effect as it getting downvoted. Which makes the fact that something can get posted early in the day and be missed, and then be posted later by someone else and be seen kinda ironic.
I don't know, I've long thought that rating systems done on a per-post basis are really bad for promoting positive content. You don't get to customise it to show each user what they want, you don't get to cache any of your work really - and there seems to be something wrong with it, at least based on back of the hand personal eye-balling, that seems to make it wreck communities (i.e. since it's been becoming popular I've found less value in online discussion.)
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I wonder:
Whether dislikes, especially from an unknown walk-by, have a stronger emotional effect than likes. (And whether this varies by gender and anonymity of the attacker.)
What subset of posts tend to attract dislikes. (I could easily see questions and things like that attracting dislikes because they don't add general utility and then one dickhead comes by and decides to spit on someone for being ignorant/learning.)
Whether when people dislike something they're really just trying to make it less visible.
#
Though, since we're really talking about something's size in the search space, if people just ignore it it has more or less the same practical effect as it getting downvoted. Which makes the fact that something can get posted early in the day and be missed, and then be posted later by someone else and be seen kinda ironic.
I don't know, I've long thought that rating systems done on a per-post basis are really bad for promoting positive content. You don't get to customise it to show each user what they want, you don't get to cache any of your work really - and there seems to be something wrong with it, at least based on back of the hand personal eye-balling, that seems to make it wreck communities (i.e. since it's been becoming popular I've found less value in online discussion.)