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comment by _refugee_
_refugee_  ·  3898 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Downvotes *are* bad for the community.

    silly facebook and 9gag content

Reddit has these problems, and Reddit has downvotes a-plenty.

The audience is what determines whether oyu end up with silly facebook and 9gag content, and the bigger the audience, the lower the common denominator.

We have a small feed and all we have are upvotes. I haven't seen a single image post yet (and let's keep it that way). I think kleinbl00 hit the nail on the head with this comment; it's the size of the community and the "max" upvote threshold that prevent low-quality, low-effort content from rising to the top.