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> There are ways to counter this, the easiest is to not show negative reviews but count them positively, a dislike actually boosts them just like a positive review would,

I think it would be better to just merely count the number of upvotes and complete, or almost complete views, for boosting purposes.

The downvotes should be for tailoring feeds, whether personal, or the aggregate feeds of people with similar interests and like/dislike votes.

Any specific criticism can be saved for the comments.




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