Downvotes should be reserved for things like spam, links that lead to malware, posts that are off-topic, etc. Things that mods would normally remove.

My problem with downvotes is that people are using downvotes to downvote that things they don’t like.

I have observed people heavily downvoting the following things:

• SPH
• Humiliation
• Cocks/gay
• Cuckold content
• Male gonewild posters
• Celebs
• OC posters that are not a perfect 10/10
• Niche fetishes

This leads to

1. People not wanting to post things
2. People who do like those things not discovering those things in hot/top
3. Less activity on the site overall because of decreased morale of posters especially OC posters

This is why I am in favor of disallowing downvotes.

Having upvotes is enough to determine which is “good” or “great” or even “bad” content in a community. Because the upvote count relative to other posts in the community tells how it was perceived by the community.

Having a more “targeted” home page may help people find things that they like instead of an endless stream of a big jumble of random content.

Reddit doesn’t have this problem because no one browses the entirety of NSFW content by new instead there is an “all” but even that had NSFW content removed from it. So really people are browsing only by the things they have subscribed to meaning if someone were to downvote a post they don’t like they would have to go out of their way to see it.

That’s hot

Yeah it was pretty crazy. I heard some people resorted to using shirts to wipe which I can’t even comprehend.

Honestly I need to step up my game and get a bidet.

Heh not at all, she’s my top pick!

That’s a good one tbh

It become a scarce resource that one time during the pandemic

I made my point very clear if you want to have a discussion with me do so without name calling.

I’m refusing to acknowledge your points because of your uncalled for name calling. Until you apologize I have 0 interest in talking to you.

Me pointing that the feedback is coming from people who have no stake in getting their posts downvoted. Isn’t the same as your name calling, condensing behavior. It seems like you are lashing out at me more than trying to get your points across.

and are especially critical in low population environments like this.

I would argue that downvotes are actually part of the reason why we have a low population environment in the first place. Downvotes are causing people who post to leave and not come back. There are certain categories of porn like MILF which I saw get downvoted and now that is completely absent on the website.

I find your use of name calling disrespectful and your tone condescending. If you want to have a conversation with me do so in a respectful way.

Oh man that might be a challenge, but I’m down to give it my best shot

Or people can just block the communities they don’t want to see instead of down voting things that they don’t like.

You don’t like cocks? No problem just block those communities.

Don’t go down voting those posts and ruining it for people who are making those posts and who trying to see those posts.

I see what you are saying. Having down votes won’t solve the issue though as outsiders can just downvotes the posts that do belong to that community.

If there’s a highly upvoted post in a community that you think doesn’t belong you always report it to the mods of that community.

Unless you try making posts here you wouldn’t experience first hand why people don’t want downvotes. It’s easy to criticize without having perspective of people who are submitting content. There’s also some entitlement of people who want certain content who are doing nothing to get that content.

Only if those things get upvoted. And if those things get upvoted the community probably wants to see that content. In that case it’s only “spam” to you. If you don’t like those people who post “spam” you can block them.

Another commenter with 0 posts and 0 comments in this community complaining about not being able to downvote posts.

and anything whatsoever that gets posted is considered valid content

Where did you get that from? There are mods in each community who set guidelines, remove off-topic posts, remove spam, etc. If you see inactive mods in a community you can request to take over the community.

So… basically just a shitty Instagram for nudes?

No one is forcing you to be here. If you don’t like parts of it you can submit posts, create communities, give constructive feedback to improve this place.

Another opinion from someone with 0 posts and 0 comments on lemmynsfw

Trying to force conformity or censoring their contributions using down votes will only end in frustration and lower user count.

That is what has been happening the past 6 months on lemmynsfw. I’m very glad a change is being now to right this ship.

You can check my down vote history I’ve heard. Please do.

I don’t think I can unless I’m an admin.

You’re barking up the wrong tree and blaming the wrong people

Given your desire to downvote people’s posts who actually put in the work of posting here I think I am talking to the right person.

No one is telling you to like everything here.

If you don’t like a particular community don’t subscribe to it and you can also block it from appearing in the all feed.

There’s a lot of categories of porn and a lot of fetishes out there. Your downvotes are just ruining it for other people.