Discussion on: Is it now possible to react with a thumb down 👎 on DEV?

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Replies for: As far as I know, only mods can do this. I did not realize that the user of the post would see that in their notifications. 🤔

This must be it, it was definitely a person with mod powers. I wonder what the implications of a thumb down are 🤔

I remember watching a movie called Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe. When Emperor Commodus gave the "thumb down", it was bad.

Manuele J Sarfatti • Jun 14 '20

😅

Shannon Crabill • Jun 14 '20

There is some info here.

dev.to/community-moderation#using-...

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Jun 15 '20

Yes, there are implications.

Thumbsdown (👎): a quick way to "push content down" so that it's less likely to be seen on the site (e.g. articles that only have a teaser paragraph and send the reader to an external link for the rest).