Recently a bunch of meme site edgelords decided to use the downvote button to bully a video because it didn’t contain the content they wanted. Half of them didn’t even watch the video, they just accepted that it was the “in” thing for their crowd to mass-downvote the video.

This site had downvoting on comments for a bit. It went away for this very reason: it was used for bullying by people who merely disagreed with reasonable comments. You’d expect mass downvoting (with likely sockpuppet accounts) to only be used against racist comments and other actually unacceptable stuff. You’d be wrong. It was used on “maybe we shouldn’t be shitheads” comments. Because apparently some people are proud to be shitheads.