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

#meta

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?

Top comments (12)

huncyrus • Jun 14 '20

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.

articles what usually copeid from other websites and rephrased but contain zero new information nor good practice. Many people abuse it to build credibility or portfolio...

Mateusz Jarzyna • Jun 14 '20

Thumb down is definitely the missing feature

Shannon Crabill • Jun 14 '20

Yikes. I know what you mean. If something is blatantly copied at pasted (especially, not their own content) report the post or the user.

Abdisalan • Jun 17 '20

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?

Shannon Crabill • Jun 14 '20

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. 🤔

Manuele J Sarfatti • Jun 14 '20

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

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).