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We Need Downvotes on Lemmy.one (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by hemmes@lemmy.one to c/chat@lemmy.one

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Really loving the new experiences here on Lemmy.one. But I’m seeing many subs with off-topic posts. Community downvotes will help overworked mods find and remove such posts. I understand no one likes to be downvoted but it’s a necessary tool for our community and only helps users understand and refine what and where they are to be posting their content.

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[-] falcon@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I guess people in general prefer this way - which is probably why 99% of Lemmy instances have downvotes enabled. You can choose any one of them :)

For me, it makes me more stressed about posting stuff, specially since you can be downvote bombed just for saying you didn't like X book, or whatever.

It also makes me more stressed when reading comments, for some reason. Either when I see an innocent random comment with negative points - I feel bad for the commenter - or when I end up using it as a disagree button and get more stressed. IDK why.

So for me, not having it is way better. Otherwise I maybe wouldn't even have created a Lemmy account, and used the "opportunity" (Reddit down in flames) to be less online - which I guess would also be a great outcome.

TLDR: some people prefer no downvotes, but most instances allow them. Your user is already on lemmy.ml, so why do you care?

this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023

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