Feedback would be much appreciated.

This would be a huge help to memers.

"I think the effects of the downvote button are too important to keep."
Did you mean too important not to keep? I honestly am not sure if it's you or I that isn't getting something. :P

I understood your meme as suggesting bringing back the downvote button (for the benefit of seeing the proportion of likes to dislikes for a meme you make), but also removing the actual effects that the downvote button has on memes ("downvotes would have no effect").

I'm saying I think it's good that the downvote button affects memes, and the effects are something I think should be kept.

Ah, I see. Even if the downvote's effects were brought back, I think it would be a good idea to make it so that only the meme's creator can see how many downvotes the meme has.

As far as I know, the downvote button's effects are still in place. Only its visibility was removed.

And you might be right about there being some benefit to a meme's maker being able to see the downvotes, for the sake of feedback. I'm not sure.

I think if anything the downvote button should only effect the actual meme itself, but have no effect on comments. This would keep trolls from raging against people who have a differing opinion from them and would like to express it. Any more people cannot or will not say something negative in a comment because they know they will just get attacked.

So to take a look at how things are right now, if one was to take into account the number of views their meme gets with how many upvotes that meme gets during a certain period of time that it has been featured, that can tell them 1 of 2 things. If a few hours has gone by and there is a low view count that tells them that it got placed in a spot in which visibility of the meme was low and therefore can account for the low upvotes on the meme, whereas a high view count with low up votes would show that not very many people enjoyed it.

Not a bad editing job, pal. :)

You upvoted too hard!

He's gotta have more good ideas in there, we just have to find a way to get them out!

Do you see my downvote on your comment?

lmao i saw that coming ;)

You brought it upon yourself.

intentionally ;)

I don't care. ;)