• Monkeyhog@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I signed up for Lemmy.world, because not having downvotes is stupid and leads to a shitty community.

    • Andreas@feddit.dk
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      1 year ago

      Ironic that three people downvoted this. But I agree, a “no downvotes” rule is designed to avoid disagreement and conflict, which is impossible on a public forum without extremely restricted expression. If the point is to be always be nice, why not disable open commenting and make users select their replies from a list of canned positive comments. 100% safety and positivity.

      • LurkyMcLurkface@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m torn on the whole no downvote button thing (I missed that when I signed up), but you can be still nice while having a discussion and disagreeing with people.

        I would argue that the downvote button can lead to exactly what you are describing though, no disagreement or conflict.
        Someone posts a unpopular opinion, a bunch of users downvote it to hell and poof!, no discussion or exchange of ideas. Just out of mind, out of sight.

        • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
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          1 year ago

          That’s only true if there is a downvote threshold that automatically hides downvoted comments, which I don’t think Lemmy has implemented. I agree that downvoting can be used to censor and avoid discussion, but the justification for removing downvotes on Beehaw is something like “keeping a positive environment with no negativity from disliking” rather than making sure users have to voice their disagreements and not just smash the blue red arrow like cowards.

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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        1 year ago

        Yes, beehaw one of them.

        Maybe when they were a bunch of users it might have been a good idea to prevent brigading, but imho now that there is 1000x user activity it’s needed. I already saw the first spambots posting spam for meds…

        • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Only one user has to report the spam and then it’ll be deleted by a mod. I think that’s a good system as well.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      I do kinda wonder if beehaw actually has downvotes not do anything for comment ranking and such, or if they just hid the button for it’s users. Because I can still see a downvote button on beehaw communities, being from a different instance, and I often notice comments on that instance that do have a downvote or two, which seems to imply that it does actually record and send data about downvotes from other users

      • parlaptie@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Disabling downvotes is a feature in the lemmy software afaik, but apparently it affects the users on that instance rather than its communities, which certainly seems like it should be the other way around.