Credit: Jay Baxter
X is reportedly working on downvotes to encourage engagement on its platform. X, according to a screenshot shared by app developer, Aaron Perris, will give users another way to share their feedback about a comment.
The downvotes feature has also been confirmed by an X engineer, Jay Baxter, who revealed that an internal test of the feature is currently being carried out.
“Community Notes wouldn’t work well without negative rating signal. But you have to be smart about how you use them. If you naively add them all up, you’ll get a hivemind like Reddit. One way: only downrank if you see negative ratings from people who typically disagree,” Baxter said.
The feature is an interesting one, especially if it eventually makes it to a global rollout.
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