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Blåhaj has disabled downvotes 😔
Sounds awful, kinda shit and overly controlling. Freedom to express disinterest and dislike is an important function of a healthy discourse.
It’s a tradeoff, but I kind of like it. For me, it’s made me realize how much I pre-judge comments based on their vote ratios instead of on their content, which is more than I’d realized. I think it’s a mechanic that contributes to the group-thinkiness of a platform. Upvotes do too, but I think downvotes specifically are kind of a contextless “shame button” that don’t contribute as much as a critical comment, but do tend to bias new arrivals to a downvoted comment against it before they’re able to judge for themselves.
Have they actually disabled downvotes, or just hidden the GUI for it, out of curiosity? If you use a front-end like https://alexandrite.app/ (and enable them in options), do they work?
We have disabled them which means we can’t downvote and they don’t federate to our servers. They more or less don’t exist. Others servers can downvote and they will federate to other servers that have downvotes enabled.
doesn’t that mean that everyone but you knows when you’re being downvoted? Because that doesn’t really make sense to me…
It means people on servers with downvotes enabled see the downvotes. Other users on blåhaj don’t.
My understanding is that not federating downvotes means that for blahaj communities, the canonical vote count has no downvotes, and instances can downvote if they like but their downvotes don’t get federated.
So if someone makes a post on this community and 20 people upvote it, then 10 Lemmy worlders downvote it, Lemmy.world would see a score of 10 but sopuli.xyz would see a score of 20 still.
I don’t think this is true, I see 21 downvoted on this post (my instance doesn’t even have 21 users)
Yeah I’ve since learned that this is not actually correct. I’m not sure where I got that from.
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