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We Need Downvotes on Lemmy.one (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Really loving the new experiences here on Lemmy.one. But I’m seeing many subs with off-topic posts. Community downvotes will help overworked mods find and remove such posts. I understand no one likes to be downvoted but it’s a necessary tool for our community and only helps users understand and refine what and where they are to be posting their content.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I dunno. I realize the intent behind downvotes, but on reddit this led to dog piling. And regardless of whether you were "right" or not, if the first 1 or 2 down votes, by pure chance, didn't like you, your post/comment was basically nuked to the phantom realm.

If it's that bad, just report it. If its not worth reporting, its not worth the dog piling either

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And not having dog-piling leads to reverse dogpiling, where only those with the resources/know how to have a botnet army surreptitiously upvote all other comments achieves the same thing.

You haven't gotten rid of the problem, you've just removed your own and other average users' ability to participate in the solution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't those other bots also downvote if they could anyway?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They probably don't mind upvote brigading/dog-piling as much because it makes them feel good.

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

Only positive feelings are just as toxic as only negative ones.

Human experience exists on the full scale. To cut out parts we don't like causes active harm to ourselves, others, and communities

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I have to disagree, as I’ve seen posts get an initial few downvotes well into negative playing field and come back after the rest of the community has had a read. We’ve all seen the back up comments to a post like that “not sure why you’re getting downvoted…”