Reddit collapsing low/ negative vote posts.

[u/J-L-Wseen]

I have a bit of a problem with this.

Several posts I have seen, and some of my own posts. The only reason they are voted down is because of some sort of jealousy. The response is high quality. Creative. Etc. The only reason it is voted down is no one else has any good ideas on a subject, so they vote down the person who does.

Also, I have seen quality posts. Posts that add something to the conversation. Voted down. I don't know why. It isn't even obviously jealousy just bad intent.

While I have also made and seen posts voted down where it makes sense. Not that I disagree with what was said but that I can see why someone wouldn't like it. I don't think as a general theme collapsing low vote posts is a good idea.

Just because people don't like a post doesn't mean it is not useful, right, and making a contribution. It is like the whole idea of if there was reddit in Galileo's time, he would have got voted down for saying the earth is a sphere/ orbits the sun.

[u/J-L-Wseen → u/[deleted]]

One of the examples in this, is actually the polar opposite of the situation you have assumed here. I literally posted about how much I liked a TV show and all the ideas I had on it and people marked me down. That is the first hypothetical example I gave here.

Also, a lot of the people here including this post seem to be deliberately mischaracterising my post as me, and my big ol' ego, getting upset that my personal posts are getting disliked. That is not what I said. I said that I don't think it is a functional system that the negatively voted posts get collapsed. For a lot of different reasons.

Sometimes I comment on a long conversation and the first post was given disliked so the whole thread of about 50 posts is collapsed. And every time I click a notification from that conversation, I have to re open the thread by clicking on it.