Why are down votes disabled?

3 years ago by Alice to c/askexplodingheads

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exploding heads doesn't have down votes any more. What happened?

admin 4 points 3 years ago

People were complaining about the down votes being used unfairly and that bots were being used.

I don't want bots chewing up resources or wasting peoples time so I disabled them.

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realcaseyrollins 1 point 3 years ago

Were they right though? Were bots being used?

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admin 1 point 3 years ago

I do not know, but I saw a lot of unusual traffic hit the server.

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Sexypink 0 points 3 years ago

Ahhhh ok good point

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maga_force 3 points 3 years ago

Maybe all my c/theDonald post will finally stop starting out with -12 vote scores

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Sexypink 2 points 3 years ago

Right lol

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AyyLMAO 2 points 3 years ago

I'm trying to figure out what happened as well... It would be worrying if they've been turned off without any user notification or anything.

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realcaseyrollins 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah I'm starting to think that's what happened

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admin 1 point 3 years ago

I have enabled down votes again.

Having them disabled did not seem to make a difference to the server.

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