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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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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.