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Monday, April 30, 2018 –
3:46pm
Facebook is trying out a voting system for
public posts which would allow users to “downvote”
comments.
After trialling the upvote/downvote buttons on a
handful of users earlier this year, “the company has made the
feature widely available in Australia and New Zealand for the time
being, in what appears to be some sort of advanced-stage test”,
BGR reports.
Antipodean Facebook users appeared baffled by
the changes:
Upvote and downvote comments on Facebook,
when did this happen? pic.twitter.com/q9F7OcJ4R3— Carter (@cwsbbb) April 29, 2018
Does Facebook now have some kind of
upvote/downvote system? Never seen this before pic.twitter.com/ysscCMq2Mi— ashslay (@ashsparkle) April 29, 2018
The new feature displays up and down arrows beside
each comment on public posts. “The more upvotes it gets the higher
that comment will appear below the original post,” says HuffPost.
Conversely, users would have to scroll down to
see “downvoted” comments.
In a statement, Facebook said that the downvote
function should not be seen as a “dislike” counterpart to the
site’s existing “like” button.
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“People have told us they would like to see better public
discussions on Facebook, and want spaces where people with
different opinions can have more constructive dialogue,” they
said.
“Our hope is that this feature will make it
easier for us to create such spaces, by ranking the comments that
readers believe deserve to rank highest, rather than the comments
that get the strongest emotional reaction.”
In theory, the change will allow users more
power to police the site’s content by promoting helpful or
constructive input while making irrelevant or offensive comments
harder to find. However, the reality may turn out quite
differently.
Message board Reddit has long offered users a downvote
button, intended to serve a similar role as a winnower of
irrelevant or unhelpful content, but users frequently complain that the tool is
more often used to express disagreement and silence dissenting
opinions.
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