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I like down-votes. But i understand the argument to remove them due to people down-voting anything that isn't extremely leftist. I think we should enable down-votes and allow the free expression of opinion because we are better than silencing those we disagree with (unlike most of the fediverse).
The idea of down votes and people using them to disagree is perfectly fine.
As you know, they are often not used in good faith. I've seen people use bots to mass downvote posts they don't like, there are people who downvote everything coming from this instance as a default stance, or follow users around and downvote everything they post, etc.
This does influence how Lemmy displays posts here, so it can be a bit annoying. You could make a great post and have it immediately buried at the bottom because someone doesn't like you, for example.
We're happy to review this if people feel strongly about it though, it's been a while since we last looked at it. Maybe make a post about it and see what others think.