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I don't understand the appeal of no downvotes. Do you really think it's a good thing that trolls, bigots, dangerously wrong answers, general assholes, spam, etc can't be downvoted? I won't pretend downvotes aren't misused sometimes, but their existence is critical for quality control.
Edit: wait, I just saw you post in another thread as an "enlightened centrist", so I guess that explains it.
Not to mention the other instances have it enabled. So anytime federated with them can downvote them, but they can't downvoted each other.
I can't seem to find the source right now (so take this with a grain of salt), but someone did check the Lemmy codebase to look into this scenario - if an instance has downvotes disabled, it won't propagate incoming downvotes.
I know that on my instance which does have downvotes enabled, if I check out any post from Beehaw (who does have downvotes disabled) there are zero downvotes on any comments as far as I can see.
Now I'm assuming this would only apply on communities hosted on that (or any downvote-disabled) instance, using my previous example if someone from Beehaw were to comment on a community originating
lemmy.ml, I believe they could still have their comments downvoted sincelemmy.mlwould be "hosting" the comment, so to speak.@Blaze @1984 Federating with ALL other instances isn't a good prospect either...
Thanks for sharing this. Do you have a second admin for your instance?
With very small instances (less than 100 members), yes, it's usually the case.
The main risk is the admin disappearing overnight, which already happened in the past for some quite big instances (vlemmy.net)