I’m not sure if just removing the button solves the issue, people who depend on it would just go somewhere else and then you lose someone who potentially could have been deprogrammed.

Like I can see how removing downvotes is a good idea and it’s already done here, because the last thing we need is to encourage dogpiling, but if we can educate people to use the upbear for a force for good it could serve a positive impact.

It means it will sometimes serve popular interests rather than socialist interests, but I don’t think there’s any easy solution, only education.