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Blahaj Lemmy Users - Downvote question (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My wonderful co-admin @[email protected] has made a modification to the downvote system. It's not currently enabled, but if we were to turn it on, downvotes would be available for use, but they would weigh 5 times less than an upvote.

Which is to say, it would take 5 downvotes to counter an upvote. This would let downvotes have an impact on what appears in the hot topics sort, but hopefully mitigate some of the more negative impacts of downvoting.

Are there any strong objections from Blahaj Lemmy users to enabling downvotes with this modification?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@[email protected] it's global and it would display on our instance like:

Score: 4.2. Upvotes: 5. Downvotes: 4

Other instances' "hot ranking" is unaffected by our change and they are free to rank and score up and down votes however they please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Would this mean we see the actual number of upvotes & downvotes just with downvotes counting for less in the rankings? Or would that "downvote" displayed also be 1/5th of the real number?