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Should I disable downvotes? (yiffit.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It often makes me sad seeing some posts receiving downvotes, even though I know it's from random people across Lemmy instances who probably aren't furries.

I could disable downvotes which would make it so that they're ignored by the instance and the count would only reflect the amount of upvotes. But, that also means that Yiffit users wouldn't be able to use downvotes anywhere else.

What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

TBH I'm very very very very surprised no one has done something worse with downvotes at a fediverse-level. Sometimes I refresh new and posts that are 10 seconds old have 2 downvotes on them. All it would take is someone with 5 bots insta-downvoting everything to cause chaos. Tune that power onto specific communities and presto, you can make things disappear.

I don't think disabling downvotes entirely is a perfect solution, but I wonder if there's another way to counteract trolls. Disabling downvotes at a community level would be the easiest way, but that still has a minor inconvenience of no longer being able to down-rank bad/offtopic content.