How would you feel if Warpcast replaced likes (the heart icon) with reddit / HN style upvote and added a downvote on every cast?

1 - strongly against this, would stop using the app
10 - hell yes, would greatly improve the experience

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

8 for me, but I imagine that some people would probably take downvoting very personally and post less

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

Can you point out a specific case or scenario where downvotes contributed productively to a discussion?

I think that’s kind of a strong evidentiary standard, as I don’t have access to data. Seems to work ok on HN and Reddit.

The underlying question is this: does it do more for you, or for the conversation / community?

Even better: what possible value could a generic, faceless negative reaction have?

How is it different from yelling "boo"?

But as I think about it, the quality of discourse right now is pretty good so maybe the measure isn’t necessary at this point.