@Jaggarunder  
looks like a tazer

that is the most poorly drawn pistol i have ever seen

Imma give you a downvote. Not to insult you, but to show you that I appreciate your picture. I wanted to upvote it, but somehow it seemed like that in itself would be a form of insult…

@Lvn  
Sometimes, when you hold in the smug, the cork pops and it flows out all at once.

@Daneasaur  
holy shit i can choke on the smugness its so palpable XD

@iIsMe95  
Because i don’t give shit about thing i hide

@Perteks  
Why not both? Simple.

This comic is rather ironic considering that downvotes were removed to keep people from feeling the shock of that mean ol’ arrow.

@ArkyNoid  
Ah, gotcha. Can’t disagree with that.

Glorious, but I want hide button

@Eeveeinheat
 
Again, everything you said about voting your way made sense, but without regard to other people. It shouldn’t be anyone’s concern how they vote to you or vice versa. That’s all I was saying. Ie. purely the merit of the pic itself or lack of merit thereof. (I don’t want to turn this into a discussion in the comments though)
 
Opinions though. Nobody’s right or wrong.

@ArkyNoid  
Daring to be different, huh? Nah. More like it’s insulting when a poorly drawn image has a better like to dislike ratio than another, often better, image. I rarely dislike this way, but it is one of the ways I dislike things. I wouldn’t dislike something that I actually thought was drawn well, even if I didn’t like the content. But tastes are a thing, yeah. Preferences and all that jazz.

she back. Woohoo!

@Eeveeinheat  

 
Sounded like a good idea then I saw that bit of curiosity. Against the grain of how others do it? Sounds like a “daring to be different” kind of thing at that point. I mean I know what you are saying and how you vote is really out of my jurisdiction and none of my business. No offense intended, please don’t get me wrong. Again, you otherwise had what sounds like a reasonable ethic.

I am going to print this image off and hang it on my refrigerator. I love this.

@ArkyNoid  
I downvote stuff I think is aesthetically terrible which, somehow, also got a lot of upvotes. Like terribly drawn ‘bits’, faces, anatomy in general, or is just plain cringe.

Nice. Yeah this comic pretty much sums it up.
 
I think during probably 75% of the fiasco I was busy elsewhere anyway and now after the fact in retrospect about it I’m all
 

@chucklefarts  
@Daneasaur
 
I’m fairly sure you really know why upvotes are good and downvotes are abused, but I’ll explain it just in case you aren’t trying to avoid the issue…
 
When people like something, they upvote. A picture with a lot of upvotes is most likely a good picture. If you want to get upvotes, you draw good pictures.
 
When people don’t like something, they downvote. But a picture with lots of downvotes isn’t necessarily a bad picture, it’s just a picture that pissed off a lot of people. If you want to get less upvotes, you avoid controversial topics and stick to whatever is mainstream.
 
I don’t like futa, so I have filtered it away. I’m sure a lot of it is very well drawn, but it’s not my thing so I’m not going around judging it by how I feel about it. That wouldn’t help anyone, it would just screw the ratings for those who actually do like it.

IMO if they want to take away the downvote then they should also take away the upvote.

@Background Pony #2B92  
Correct. As I pointed it out above.
 
I have zero qualms with them adding a “hide” feature in the options above a post.
 
But honestly ,there are images I’ve downvoted and then I had a sensible discussion in it explaining why it was bad and got to see the artist improve.

@RIG  
Well, no, one person was pissed enough to make an image and decided to upload it. That’s not “loads of people”.

its expression dude. no one wants expression taken from them. especially cuase it just keeps happening. its a harmony thing.
 
they need to improve the system in question, not remove parts of it.

They should change her name to Soapbox. Downvote isn’t fitting too well.

Well, if someone that can draw actually took the time to make this, you can say this actually pissed off loads of people and not just the usual “vocal minority”.