Comment on What is your opinion on the lack of downvotes?
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months agoI like downvotes because I don’t like seeing shittakes be uncontested. Truth isn’t democratic, but humans are social animals and consensus matters to us even if it shouldn’t.
You’ll see outright fascist dogwhistles posted to Beehaw with nothing but upvotes. Do people know what they’re supporting? Are they just upvoting because they see a comment that’s apparently uncontested?
The worst combination is some instances using it and others not.
spaceghoti@lemmy.one 11 months ago
This is where I’m coming from. I can block accounts that are clearly trolls, but if I block them in one instance I can’t watch for them in the communities I moderate. So effectively, I can’t block them and I can’t do anything to discourage them from broadcasting disinformation. There’s no option for negative feedback other than to feed the trolls by replying to them.
I’m finding it has consequences that were most likely unintended, enabling the worst people to appear as though their toxic opinions are praiseworthy.