--- title: Downvotes 👎 | daily.dev description: You can now downvote posts that don't resonate with you. While invisible to others, your downvote improves our recommendation system. You can downvote via the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/downvotes--qk301jnuy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Downvotes 👎 | daily.dev og:description: You can now downvote posts that don't resonate with you. While invisible to others, your downvote improves our recommendation system. You can downvote via the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/downvotes--qk301jnuy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QK301jNUY.png og:image:alt: Downvotes 👎 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Downvotes 👎 **[daily.dev Changelog](https://daily.dev/sources/daily_updates)** · 1 min read · 484 upvotes · 48 comments ## Summary You can now downvote posts that don't resonate with you. While invisible to others, your downvote improves our recommendation system. You can downvote via the post page or in your feed. Once you downvote, additional actions like blocking the source or reporting the post become available. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ayd** · 38 upvotes > I tried to downvote this post. I can confirm it works. **@kramer** · 12 upvotes > [More info about downvotes](https://docs.daily.dev/docs/key-features/upvotes) can be found on our docs. > > Edit: although downvotes do not detract from the number of upvotes, it does have an effect on the potential of that post to appear again on other people's feeds. > > The irony is that if you downvote this post to test it, you might see fewer changelog posts from us, which is probably the opposite of what we hope to happen 😅 > >  **@sankhadip10** · 6 upvotes > Testing downvote :) **@kkurko** · 4 upvotes > Are there thoughts of introducing downvotes for comments? I understand that you most likely need to see how it works for posts first, but just wondering **@jofftiquez** · 3 upvotes > Ok, it's working! 👍 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#dailydev](https://daily.dev/tags/dailydev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/downvotes--qk301jnuy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Downvotes 👎","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/downvotes--qk301jnuy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/downvotes--qk301jnuy"},"datePublished":"2023-07-02T06:38:46.429Z","dateModified":"2023-07-20T14:10:56.027Z","description":"You can now downvote posts that don't resonate with you. 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I understand that you most likely need to see how it works for posts first, but just wondering","datePublished":"2023-07-02T08:45:12.489Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/QK301jNUY#c-o2YXIcQ5x","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kirill Kurko","url":"https://daily.dev/kkurko","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/58859242?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Ok, it’s working! 👍","datePublished":"2023-07-02T07:36:26.297Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/QK301jNUY#c-Sn5rTPPNA","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Joff Tiquez","url":"https://daily.dev/jofftiquez","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8638243?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}}]} ```