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- verb Present participle of
downvote .
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Examples
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Someone, it appears, is going around reddit and digg and downvoting my beloved lolgoths.
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I submit that downvoting stories that you admit you are not downvoting on their merits is by definition abuse of the system, to the point where it routinely fails to function as it was intended.
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Someone, it appears, is going around reddit and digg and downvoting my beloved lolgoths.
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The submission and comment system relies heavily on "upvoting" and "downvoting," meaning that stories and comments that are judged to be the most worthy by the most people float to the top while bad ideas and inferior content gets downvoted into oblivion.
Forbes.com: News Kashmir Hill 2012
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But the regurgitated 4chan memes, pun threads, novelty accounts, and downvoting of any opinion different from the majority says otherwise.
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Fist I thought of downvoting you for trolling a guy who contributed his reply (there's nothing wrong with his reply).
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I feel like there's a cabal of indignant pregnant and new mothers on Reddit that are going through this thread and downvoting every comment that agrees with the song.
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Or maybe they succumb to "group downvoting pressure", but guess what,
QJ.NET Ryan F. 2010
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I couldn't agree more, and it's unfortunate that people are downvoting you on this.
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But the regurgitated 4chan memes, pun threads, novelty accounts, and downvoting of any opinion different from the majority says otherwise.
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