I wrote a (knowingly) controversial comment to a post, and in my notifications I see this:
But when I look at the reactions of the comment itself the "thumb down" does not appear, nor have I ever been able to "thumb down" anything.
Is this some kind of superpower granted to this website's VIPs? Is it an experimental feature? Does anyone have any information on this?
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Personally, I have no clue, maybe it was reported as abuse?
But would like to see a downvote button, because so many copy-cat article* exists and would be nice to throw them away after a while.
Thumb down is definitely the missing feature
Yikes. I know what you mean. If something is blatantly copied at pasted (especially, not their own content) report the post or the user.
I'd rather NOT have a thumbs down reaction, it just adds negativity.
We're already hungry for more likes and unicorns, why feel attacked as well?
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. π€
This must be it, it was definitely a person with mod powers. I wonder what the implications of a thumb down are π€
There is some info here.
dev.to/community-moderation#using-...
Yes, there are implications.
I remember watching a movie called Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe. When Emperor Commodus gave the "thumb down", it was bad.
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It looks like some of the mod actions may have sent notifications when they shouldn't have. I believe the issue has been fixed now.
Shouldn't it be transparent when a post is flagged? Is there a reason why it's kept "secret" by design?