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For some reason posts on our instance have recently gotten more downvotes from outside instances than usual and many posts look like this:

I personally don't like the idea of disabling downvotes but if the feature is mostly going to be used by outside users because crypto is "le bad" we might as well turn it off.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't think it's a good idea to disable them. I don't want to live in an echo chamber or silence critics. Facing criticism will strengthen worthwhile ideas.

And it would rob the actual users of the instance of the ability to downvote content we don't approve of legitimately.

But I do like that you've been making the voting and vote bombing transparent.

Is there a script or another way to make the voting parties visible to all users rather than just the admin? Or make it so a flood coming from external sources would be visible or filtered in some way?

[–] gimpchrist 1 points 6 months ago

It wouldn't silence actual critics that have something to say because they would actually leave a comment... down voting is just away for trolls to shit on things without explanation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Is there a script or another way to make the voting parties visible to all users rather than just the admin?

This is how it works on kbin, so it's definitely possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Leave them on. It will be a good indicator of sentiment change once the majority of people realize Monero is their friend and will start to upvote anything Monero related. 😉

[–] morphballganon 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a bad idea when any community that shares ideas does it.

Porn? Fine, whatever. But people need to be able to show when an idea is dangerously wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

We are a crypto bubble within a tankie bubble. I think it's fair to consider discarding tankie opinions, especially if they are so over-represented that they completely drown out people on their own home instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

do not desactivate downvote.

Should i vote negatively on this post?, to indicate that i want you to continue active the negative votes? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Just keep posting these images whenever you feel like it. It will have a chilling effect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

tricky question. Maybe we need to get more of the reddit people to come here so we just get more activity here and the amount of external downvotes doesn't way as much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah we get down voted by the rest of the federation and downvotes are mostly meaningless. Is there a way to turn off remote votes, not federate votes? Good feedback from our community is good, spam manipulation from outside is just noise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

99% still believe govt. lies. And then come here to play nanny?

We could just change the rules: downvote means thumbsup ... :) PLZ downvote, down, down, i'll appreciate it !1!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Or create a new button for 'Double Plus Good'

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

is it possible to disable downvotes only for outside users?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Doesn't look like it.