Maybe an upvote/downvote mechanism encourages evaluation by the first simple binary criterion that comes to mind, like agree/disagree.
So maybe it makes it harder to remember that things can be good in multiple ways, and makes people ignore the less obvious ways.
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Maybe an upvote-only mechanism (like Twitter) makes it harder to remember that statements can be actively harmful.
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Maybe if goodness is more objective and badness is more subjective, it makes sense to represent badness by individual unfollows/nonfollows.
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