downvote

The head-butt is the bee version of a downvote.

He was also surprised by the move to correct, or neturalize, a downvote but wondered whether such reactions were universal.

Aral found that users were effectively "neutralizing" the downvote.

An "upvote" will increase the score and a "downvote" will decrease it.

When a comment was initially created, Aral would immediately give it an upvote, a downvote or leave it alone.

Upvote/Downvote: These are essentially user ratings on a yak.

This followed years of stubborn refusal to offer anything in the way of a "dislike" button, which Zuckerberg had publicly criticized as too similar to other sites' "downvote" options.

Sinan Aral, an associate professor of IT and marketing at MIT, saw that a quick upvote might have more sway than a quick downvote.

One of site's distinguishing features is the way it delivers content: Users score Reddit stories with an upvote or downvote, which affects where the stories appear on the website.

Another 1,942 comments (two percent of the total) were assigned to the negative treatment group and were given a single downvote; the rest of the comments made during this period served as controls.

The "downvote" of the popular website Reddit is identified as periwinkle, and one of the two "teams" of the site's April Fools event in 2013 was named for the color.

Zuckerberg didn't confirm the exact name of the feature, nor its expected ship date, but based on repeated concerns about "downvote" culture, we expect something with a nuanced name-much like how the "like" button was previously known as the "awesome" button.

They monitored how likely the next user to see the comment was to give it an up- or downvote, as well as how the overall scores of comments in the two treatment groups compared to those in the control groups by the end of the study.

A long account of the process-written by Arthur Chu, one of the panel's participants-highlights how SXSW's Reddit-style upvote/downvote "panel picker" system was perfectly suited to GamerGate's preferred modes of attack: comment-thread spamming, slander, and threats.