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Have you tried turning off voting for lemmy
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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If you consider upvotes but ignore downvotes wouldn't that give you quite a weird picture in case of controversial posts? Assuming there's a racist or transphobic post with 100 downvotes and 5 upvotes, would that be displayed as +5? Or does it not show any votes at all?
It displays as +5.
That stuff just gets removed. Admin and mods on blahaj don't fuck around, really.
Thanks for the explanation. Maybe my example was too extreme but unless they remove everything that's even slightly controversial, that can give a pretty wrong impression IMO. Wouldn't be for me at least.
When it looks like this
You can still tell.
Sometimes that's just the up/downvote train. Sometimes people will just see the first couple of comments in an argument and just downvote/upvote alternatingly. Despite the idea that the votes are usually for what contributes to discussion, and not agree/disagree votes...
As @Edie@lemmy.ml got at, it encourages ratioing and directly countering instead of silently downvoting. Bad takes are more directly combatted, and furthermore minority groups can't be downvote harrassed.