it's not even the energy drink, instant mashed potatoes are disgusting in and of themselves
Blåhaj has disabled downvotes 😔
Sounds awful, kinda shit and overly controlling. Freedom to express disinterest and dislike is an important function of a healthy discourse.
People can still express these things via comments and posts? Forums and others formats do perfectly well without down and upvotes. I've now been using blåhaj for quite a long time and I can't say I miss downvotes much.
Comments and posts don't push poor posts down
As others have mentioned this is why we got rid of downvotes! Our instance is a trans safe space and we often get downvote brigaded by phobes.
I guess the instance relies on more active moderation to clear low quality posts?
We do very actively remove bigoted content, but beyond that we're not really large enough to have many low quality posts locally. Some communities here very much embrace shitposting such as this one, so no moderation required there.
Eh, the level of effort/friction in making a constructive comment vs downvoting isn’t really comparable. Removing the latter option shifts a larger burden onto the moderation team. That said, downvotes can be abused too, so I’m honestly not sure which is better.
Members of marginalized communities commonly experience downvote brigading from bigoted groups. It can function as a silencing tactic as well, as most clients auto hide highly downvoted comments.
It's a tradeoff, but I kind of like it. For me, it's made me realize how much I pre-judge comments based on their vote ratios instead of on their content, which is more than I'd realized. I think it's a mechanic that contributes to the group-thinkiness of a platform. Upvotes do too, but I think downvotes specifically are kind of a contextless "shame button" that don't contribute as much as a critical comment, but do tend to bias new arrivals to a downvoted comment against it before they're able to judge for themselves.
I think it's there because other servers would downvote brigade blahaj? I'm not sure of the history there but I would think Ada did it for a reason.
Discourse can function without a button that shows your dislike for someones response
There are other ways to show your disagreement
I like this one in particular
blahaj having it disabled for so long made me used to it and so now even when i can downvote, i downvote less.
What if we upvote our way to an overflow?
This is a pretty good case to re enable
Have they actually disabled downvotes, or just hidden the GUI for it, out of curiosity? If you use a front-end like https://alexandrite.app/ (and enable them in options), do they work?
We have disabled them which means we can't downvote and they don't federate to our servers. They more or less don't exist. Others servers can downvote and they will federate to other servers that have downvotes enabled.
doesn't that mean that everyone but you knows when you're being downvoted? Because that doesn't really make sense to me...
My understanding is that not federating downvotes means that for blahaj communities, the canonical vote count has no downvotes, and instances can downvote if they like but their downvotes don't get federated.
So if someone makes a post on this community and 20 people upvote it, then 10 Lemmy worlders downvote it, Lemmy.world would see a score of 10 but sopuli.xyz would see a score of 20 still.
It means people on servers with downvotes enabled see the downvotes. Other users on blåhaj don't.
I can downvote on Boost
You're not on blahaj, so you'd be able to downvote anyway. But I did notice when I used Boost that it doesn't disable the downvote UI, so you can basically pretend to downvotd even though it doesn't work.
Then how is there an 83% like percentage?
We have disabled them which means we can't downvote and they don't federate to our servers. They more or less don't exist. Others servers can downvote and they will federate to other servers that have downvotes enabled.
Did they rasp the can over the gravy as a topping?
I like to replace energy drinks with water because I'm 75% water and I crave myself
Are you merlin brawndo?
You're not the only one...
I do this, but with almond milk to add extra nutrients.
idk about mashed potatoes, but i do just add matcha to half the things i bake now. matcha banana bread? yes. matcha pancakes? hell yeah. does it taste better? actually yes, but more importantly my pancakes are caffeinated now, as i argue they should have been from the start.
This isn’t real.
Right?????
For a serious answer, I don't think the drink could get it to be that green. So if they did use the drink, they also had to have used food coloring, and at that point, why even do that and why not just use food coloring, it's easier and the mashed potatoes with look right still. Maybe? Hopefully?
Idiocracy already did it.
doin the monster mash; with you on this beautiful valentines day
Ever see your racist uncle do a backflip after thanksgiving dinner?!
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