My instance has downvoting enabled, but I’ve learned that some other instances do not. Do the vote totals look different to users on different instances? It seems like some users on instances that don’t allow downvoting are unaware that it’s not the same lemmy-wide. It would be pretty confusing for them to see their vote go down.

  • Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I see your points, and they do make sense, but I respectfully disagree with your conclusion. My reasoning is that, from my experience, a downvote has no nuance. A reply saying “this is wrong and here’s why” with a hundred upvotes is useful. A downvote is basically the equivalent of flicking a peanut.

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      1 year ago

      The thing is that people usually won’t take the time to write that reply and in case of trolls, they shouldn’t be wasting their time.

      YouTube’s dislikes used to be great for telling useful content apart from useless spam at a glance without even clicking on it. They removed them, so now we have to read the comments before watching a video if we want to avoid wasting time.

      In this day and age, information flows so fast there isn’t always time for nuance. The downvote isn’t perfect and misused often, but it does serve a purpose.

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      1 year ago

      does a comment/post really need hundreds of comments saying similar things it also helps to hide spam content and trolls

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          1 year ago

          You remove the downvotes you juat get people more people in the comments with “you’re an idiot” or whatever instead of just a downvote.

          It’s not like those kinds of comments are really that nuanced or helpfull either.

          • Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            1 year ago

            I haven’t noticed that so far.

            Also, even if that were an issue, please forgive me but I’m not entirely convinced that the problem of people posting comments that are lacking in nuance could be solved with a tool that has no nuance.