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Anomander  ·  4334 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: DAE remember whing about Digg refugees?

Huh. You figure that the lack of negative reinforcement is going to draw the downvote-shy lurkers out in a big way?

I always figured those are the same folks who lurk 4chan, browse SA, and never participate much anywhere else - the "fear of downvotes" is just an excuse. There are almost always going to be "silent majority" readers, I'm not sure if the exclusively positive-reinforcement model is going to change that where other systems with no negative reinforcement at all have failed.

I dunno, mostly just musing, but I'm not sure that it's such a make-it feature or trait.