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I find the downvotes excessive for this kind of thing. They are basically a censorship mechanism, enough downvotes and a comment will basically disappear. I've used it about twice since I got the ability several years ago, and both times it was somebody promoting a Trump-related conspiracy theory.

[himata4113]

bad takes usually cap at around ~2-3, horrible takes or spam go all the way to -5 and die.

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Maybe in some cases it stalemates at this 2-3 point, people downvoting because they disagree and people seeing it turn grey and upvoting.