Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My instance has downvotes turned off (which I like). That action only benefits people who care about downvotes.

  The better option that helps everyone is to report bad faith posts.

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  • punksnotdead@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Looks like your comment is receiving downvotes just fine…

    Maybe this thread is a lesson in how downvotes have a purpose and why instances turning them off is silly puritanical nonsense that serves to aid bad content more than anything else it purports to achieve.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      On your instance, yes. Those downvotes get dropped on my side, so I can’t see them, and neither can anyone else on a non-downvote instance. My proposal would address the issue of slop for everyone, whereas downvote proponents are just saying, “Yeah, well my way is better. Lemmy is only for people who do it my way.”

      If this thread is a lesson in anything, it’s that the bad habits of Reddit carried over, and people are so fucking lazy, they can’t be bothered to click the report button.

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      • punksnotdead@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        downvote proponents are just saying, “Yeah, well my way is better. Lemmy is only for people who do it my way.”

        If anything you’re the one being obtuse and saying your way is better and that people must adapt to your way. Downvotes are the default behaviour of the software and the “reddit-like” experience of Lemmy

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    report bad faith posts

    You’re supposed to report posts that break instance or community rules, not whatever you happen to consider to be “bad faith”. Moderators are not the arbiters of intent.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re supposed to report posts that break instance or community rules, not whatever you happen to consider to be “bad faith”.

      This isn’t Reddit. Mods aren’t beholden to some set of standards handed down by moneyed interests. They’re real people with (hopefully) common sense and a desire to create something better than Reddit.

      Besides, even if your instance has disabled downvotes, other instances can still see them.

      That’s my point. If instances like mine can’t see downvotes, it’s excluding people like me, because people can’t be bothered to report. Furthermore, all it is is a popularity contest. “A bunch of people don’t like it” is no guarantee you won’t, nor does it demonstrate that the content is in fact garbage; it just shows a bunch of people don’t like it.

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      • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’d love to know what an actual moderator would think if you imposed your idea on them.

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