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Twitter is reportedly testing out a dislike button.

www.dexerto.com A dislike button for X is reportedly being tested out - Dexerto

X is reportedly toying with the idea of introducing a dislike button to the app and users think it is a “very bad idea.”

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They have a dislike button
- it's not working!
Twitter could use a dislike button.

Not for each tweet, just the one.
so its gonna become reddit
- Musk is extremely reddit-brained, I'm surprised it took this long to introduce dislikes/down votes
  
  Why didn't he just buy Reddit instead again? Is this like NYC and it's trash situation? Can't see the forest for the trees or w.e.?
Button will not do anything when clicked on posts
Twitter is already one of the most draining sites as is, dislikes are gonna probably kill someone out of a stroke in their subconsciousness
- Also - I'm sure that somehow Elon's algos will allow right-wing bots to mass downvote freely. Some rando will say that they tweeted "Nazis suck" and within 60 seconds they had ~100 downvotes. And they'll say after they tweeted a screengrab of that - both tweets were removed without explanation.
  
  Looking into it.
All the science is against this. There is a damn reason every site with one has removed it.

The effect of this on twitter will be to simultaneously upset EVERYONE. LGBT people still on the site will be mass downvoted by far right. The chuds on the site will be mass harassed by the left. All groups will be upset by it.

Any large account will be able to cause a mob of downvotes with a simple retweet. The result of getting downvoted won't improve anyone's behaviour it will instead make them more hostile and more toxic.
- There is a damn reason every site with one has removed it
  
  I strongly disagree with that, removing dislikes on youtube was one of the numerous shit decisions youtube tooks. And it's a general opinion.
  
  You can disagree with it but there are numerous studies that back this up. These decisions have not been made on vibes.
  
  Dislikes on videos from creators trying to build an audience is not the same as dislikes on random people's tweets. Not to mention even on YouTube the feature didn't work, because most people like most videos they choose to watch, so therefore the majority of videos that got mostly downvotes were brigaded for reasons unrelated to their quality.
  
  The youtube dislike button did the exact opposite of what everyone thought it did (at least it DID for a significant length of time).
  
  It promoted the video. Any end user interaction was/is considered positive for any video. Disliking a video was/is no different. Honestly not sure if it did or does much for comments either. And the whole "people will see negative dislikes and see people dislike it for some reason and hopefully learn why" might work somewhat, but is largely cope. People aren't going to look at it 95% of the time.
- The effect of this on twitter will be to simultaneously upset EVERYONE
  
  that sounds very entertaining, i cant wait.
- I prefer to watch someone get manhandled in the QTR
Why press a dislike button when you can ratio instead?
- the hexbear way
  
  My adrenaline spike when I have two comments for every up bear in my post.
The actual headline is so ugly. Why write it that way? It sounds like a stupid person trying very hard to sound smart.
- Completely unnecessary passive voice
  
  It's not as if Israel is involved.
Xeddit
It's gonna be great when musk gets ratioed by this and disables it
- I think he'll go a different way. I think people will be able to click the downvote button his tweets but nothing beyond that will happen.
how many user-seconds will this grant musk?

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