I’ve been so used to judging a post just by its popularity on reddit, but it’s actually so much more useful to have an idea of the downvote ratio. I’m glad we have that here.
It was a scandal when it disappeared from YouTube, but I didn’t realize it was missing from Reddit too for much longer!
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hm. The instance I’m on, lemmy.one, doesn’t have a downvote button or a ratio. Can each server owner configure it to remove that? Maybe I should switch instances! Is there an easy way to export all of my communities and migrate to lemmy.ml?
Yes, servers can disable downvotes. Beehaw does that, for instance. I’m on lemmy.world which allows both. I prefer both because I think it helps silence bad faith participation with less active moderation, but I respect that some places don’t want it.
unfortunately, “bad faith” is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes I wish to very silently express my disapproval without alerting anyone that there has been disapproval. Everyone finds themselves holding a deeply unpopular/controversial opinion from time to time, bc the universe is a complex place
It also enables bad faith participation such as down-vote brigading.
while that’s true, people will always find a way to be jerks. if people can’t be jerks with a downvote, they’ll express their jerkitude verbally, which is certainly worse. i just wish we could move beyond the point where a downvote (or a bunch) was enough to emotionally devastate a person-- or where people feel the need to do that to others.
this is such a nice place now, but, then again, so was reddit in the beginning.
It’s something that can be configured, at least at the server level, which is cool.
I’m running my own personal instance, and I’m keeping downvotes enabled. It’s something that I’d really like to see, personally, but I have absolutely no judgement or concern for instances that choose to disable downvoting.
I do wonder if that’s something that can be managed at the community level, though. I can definitely imagine some communities opting to disable downvoting, if their server admin(s) allowed it.
Everyone feel free to downvote me so you can see it in action
Added a cheeky down vote for you 😉
Quick, everybody upvote this guy! Positive bullying!
Same, first positive thing I noticed. This really feels like Reddit in the beginning–I like it!
personal opinion: not having downvote is the same as a participation trophy… pointless and hurts the original idea of “upvoting” (or the winner trrophy) just because a lot of people cannot handle the reality of the world… just sad :(
I really like that you can hide scores on posts and comments altogether. I don’t like seeing the upvotes or downvotes. I don’t want to base my opinion on a comment or post on what other people have felt about it, and so just not seeing their reaction to it at all helps prevent that. I don’t think popularity is necessarily a useful factor to consider in judging a post or comment. This is one complaint I have about the Jerboa app right now, is that it doesn’t respect the Hide Scores preference.
Everytime I loomed at my most upvoted comments/submissions on reddit, it would just be populist low effort crap that I wrote.
The meaningful insightful comments that I wrote barely got more than a handful of votes.
The voting system really isn’t that indicative of anything in my opinion, other than how willing we are to lower ourselves to pander to the lowest common denominator.
I absolutely agree … have an upvote!
Snark aside, I do agree, but my time on the microblogging side of the fediverse has habituated me to using “like”/“upvote” as just a nice pleasant gesture to the author of acknowledgement and appreciation. Of course there aren’t any algorithms on the fediverse (yet?), so a “like” can only be a gesture, and it’s actually wonderful.
So I do the same here. If I really think something is problematic, I frown in concern with a downvote. Thinking of it as human gestures to actual people is actually a nice way to interact on social media IMO.
And while pandering will happen, I, as a lurker/reader don’t always want to highest voted comment and often sort by new and old to see other comments. So it really can be about what habits and mentalities we bring to this … a readjustment of which being something the fediverse has to offer.
Complete agreement, it feels like I’m awakening old voting habits from a nicer internet.
at least Reddit showed the upvote - downvote balance, YouTube only shows upvotes, which is a completely useless number.
Looking at you, beehaw.org
What I really hope to see is some client-side algorithms that can let you track who vote-voted-for-what. This way, you (your client) could ignore downvotes if you detect brigading or rings and it could boost a particular post if it happened to be upvoted by a friend of yours.
