You can now help us fighting spam and unwanted content by downvoting comments and board topics.
When should I vote down?
Downvote posts that are spammy, misplaced or sloppy and do not add anything substantial to the discussion.
How do I vote down?
Click the down arrow to the right of each comment / topic. You can undo your votes by clicking the button again.
What happens when I vote down?
Comments and topics that have been downvoted multiple times are collapsed / greyed out.
Downvoting is not something we want you to take lightly! Use it wisely in the spirit to improve the platform.
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[a comment downvoted by multiple users] 
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i want to be able to downvote
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[a comment downvoted by multiple users] 
why can't we downvote tracks?
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I know this is a complete necro but I want to spark up some more conversation on this topic. I, for one, like the downvote feature. As @Snadbrugen said, it has been used pretty sensibly since its implementation. A lot of spam has been erased, as well as a lot of harassment. I think the people abusing the downvote button are the same people who tend to get downvoted quite frequently anyway, so the abuse (if even present) is most likely cancelled out.
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Downvoting is silly, it is up to the account owner to oversee the comments on his page and report conduct he doesn't like. That's how it should be. If you don't like something on someone else's track, too bad. It's their job to filter the comments, not some random account downvoting things on other people's account pages or tracks. Also by the guide above, that means I should downvote people who don't write well. That's just detrimental to the AT community, which in my estimate is already growing strangely snobbish over really unimportant things.
For the record, we should all be grateful that this FREE DAW is even available to us. Let's just keep the community ethically responsible. Don't downvote and hide comments you don't like. Instead, tell them why they're wrong or, if spam, ignore it. Accounts have the ability to delete spam from their walls or tracks and report spam if they see fit. Self policing this issue by mob rule of voting is not going to make this a happier community. It's going to be abused and also tick off a lot of people whose comments will be shot down and unavailable.
Many thanks to the AT creator(s) for even allowing this site to be free. Y'all's the real MVPs.
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Have a look at the Sample Upload Temporarily Disabled thread. In my opinion the Downvote was used in a senseful way. I haven't seen any abuse over the time this function has existed. At least not in the quantity predicted by some doomsayers
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When the post about downvoting has been downvoted about 700 times XD
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oops. "Downvoting is not something we want you to take lightly! Use it wisely in the spirit to improve the platform."
I'll stop.
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Update: Downvotes no longer cancel out Upvotes
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Man, downvoting sucks. It simply adds negativity to the site. You can never see who actually downvotes, so people can hide behind hating other people's comments anonymously, which I think is terrible. And if people don't like this very comment, my personal opinion, which affects no one in any way shape or form, enough anonymous clicks of the mouse can hide my comment. On many track, there are downvoted comments that are not "spammy, misplaced or sloppy and do not add anything substantial to the discussion", but instead, are just people being hateful to the specific artist, track, or are just being all around annoying. And I see people asking for help and tips on how to make music (not asking for people to listen, or spam), and people downvote innocent comments such as this. At least we should be able to see who downvotes. Because as of now, many comments that are in fact important are getting taken down without reason, while the perpetrators of the occurence go unknown. I also agree with this by Xom: : "if we want the downvote and upvote buttons to do what they're intended to do, i don't think, for example, that one downvote and one upvote on a comment should cancel eachother out to zero. instead there should be a 1 by the upvote button and a 1 by the downvote button so that the information the numbers show can be more telling of how many people downvoted, even if the majority happened to upvote instead, or visa versa" .
My overall verdict: right now, downvoting is not beneficial at all, given how it occurs. Could it ever be beneficial? Maybe. But it needs fixing again. I should emphasize - this is meant to be my personal opinion, it is not supposed to offend anyone including the creators of audiotool. My criticism is harsh, but it needs to be said. :) - Ty Freestyle
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@André Michelle Thank you for acknowledging me. I agree with all of that. To be fair, I have only been on here for 1 year (about) so then downvotes wouldn't be available to me. I think its less about experience on the site necessarily, and more about how the process is. Thank you though! Glad to see my paragraph wasn't in vain... :)
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... 2 years is a little too much.
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"Downvoting is not something we want you to take lightly! Use it wisely in the spirit to improve the platform."
I dont think this is TOO subjective, but I also dont think it's wrong to predict that given enough time, the value of a downvote will decrease in a sort of treadmill effect. The "bad" threshold for a downvote will slide lower in time.
That being said, I dont find reddit or google to suffer too much from this effect. If my comment gets downvoted because people dont like or agree with it, I move on. I think some of us are getting a bit too hung up on being able to downvote things that they just don't agree with or don't like it. If that happens, so be it.
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