Sometimes I see a post that could really use a downvote, but I can’t downvote it. I really think being able to downvote posts that are not great (rascism, tankieism, dumbass takes, etc) is a really cathartic experience and I miss having it from my old instance.

I understand wanting to remove downvotes to combat negativity, but I don’t think it’s a good idea. When YouTube removed dislikes, people missed having them.

Edit: A lot of people are replying to this saying that if someone posts hateful content, I should just block and report them. Which I don’t disagree with, but there’s always content that’s annoying enough to want to downvote, but not bad enough to go against the rules of the sub. I’d rather just downvote that sort of thing and go on my way than leave a comment saying “shit’s cringe, yo”.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Lemmy just isn’t busy enough for that. Unless you’re looking at “all” you’re going to see pretty much every post in every sub you’re subscribed to. And if you’re watching “all”, then upvotes will curate your experience just fine.

      And ultimately, it’s a moderation issue, not an admin issue. It’s certainly not something I’m going to turn on, opening our trans users to revenge votes, just to avoid a questionable niche scenario

    • First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Depends on how the Blahaj admins feel about misinformation, but in general misinformation is pretty bad and if you are operating in bad faith you will likely be actioned, especially since reports aren’t like Reddit where they target specific rules, they are a written response. basically anything that operates as bad-faith is getting the axe here, there’s extra incentive for it.

      Another thing to keep in mind is that malicous actors can give themselves fake upvotes if they have multiple accounts of different names. In that case it’s best to not even bother with Booing them and just get to giving them the boot (ban evasion can’t be proven so actioning upvoting accounts only when you can prove a correlation between them, oherwise you’ll ban people who simply upvoted them).