I’ve been so used to judging a post just by its popularity on reddit, but it’s actually so much more useful to have an idea of the downvote ratio. I’m glad we have that here.

It was a scandal when it disappeared from YouTube, but I didn’t realize it was missing from Reddit too for much longer!

  • manned_meatball@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    at least Reddit showed the upvote - downvote balance, YouTube only shows upvotes, which is a completely useless number.

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    personal opinion: not having downvote is the same as a participation trophy… pointless and hurts the original idea of “upvoting” (or the winner trrophy) just because a lot of people cannot handle the reality of the world… just sad :(

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    1 year ago

    Same, first positive thing I noticed. This really feels like Reddit in the beginning–I like it!

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    What I really hope to see is some client-side algorithms that can let you track who vote-voted-for-what. This way, you (your client) could ignore downvotes if you detect brigading or rings and it could boost a particular post if it happened to be upvoted by a friend of yours.

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    1 year ago

    hm. The instance I’m on, lemmy.one, doesn’t have a downvote button or a ratio. Can each server owner configure it to remove that? Maybe I should switch instances! Is there an easy way to export all of my communities and migrate to lemmy.ml?

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      1 year ago

      Yes, servers can disable downvotes. Beehaw does that, for instance. I’m on lemmy.world which allows both. I prefer both because I think it helps silence bad faith participation with less active moderation, but I respect that some places don’t want it.

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        It also enables bad faith participation such as down-vote brigading.

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          while that’s true, people will always find a way to be jerks. if people can’t be jerks with a downvote, they’ll express their jerkitude verbally, which is certainly worse. i just wish we could move beyond the point where a downvote (or a bunch) was enough to emotionally devastate a person-- or where people feel the need to do that to others.

          this is such a nice place now, but, then again, so was reddit in the beginning.