LogFAQs > #979276983

The system of up and down voting is why I quit Reddit. In theory, it promotes quality content and demotes shitposting. In reality, it promotes saying what people want to hear and discourages saying unpopular things.

As an example, let's say you visit a flat Earth "research" group. In theory it's for debating the concept of a flat Earth and making your arguments for and against it. As long as you're making a quality post, you should be able to make arguments disproving flat Earth. In reality, your post could be the highest quality post ever to grace the sub but if people don't like you disproving their beliefs you can count on getting buried in down-votes. Your quality content gets swept under a rug in favor of shitposts that say what they like hearing. You could even end up silenced just because your comments are unpopular, no matter how good they are.

That should never happen.