Comment on (REDO) FediNSFW the announcements community for the lemmyNSFW replacement
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 days agoI believe that was the rationale for disabling downvotes. Honestly, it was pretty nice. Really, only rule-breaking content should be downvoted in my opinion. But everyone just uses it as a “don’t like” signal, which further marginalizes small/niche posters and communities that aren’t breaking any rules, by suppressing their posts with negative ratios.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Rule breaking should be reported. Downvotes should indicate relevance or general disapproval. But that’s my opinion. Feel free to downvote. 😉
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, my opinion is rule-breaking should be reported. The phrase I should have used is “bad-faith conduct.” Sealioning, LLM-likely text, propaganda posts, troll comments. Things that may not break rules but still are outside the bounds of respectful or legitimate effort.
If people want to use it to express general disapproval, the result will be a reddit-like leveling of commentary and opinion, because the bell curve of opinion will keep narrowing to just the most statistically acceptable content.
But if you insist on using the for just “disapproval,” I’d at least suggest doing it asymmetrically: upvote if you liked a thing at all; downvote only if you absolutely hate it.