Submitted 9 months ago by admin@monero.town to meta@monero.town
For some reason posts on our instance have recently gotten more downvotes from outside instances than usual and many posts look like this:
I personally don’t like the idea of disabling downvotes but if the feature is mostly going to be used by outside users because crypto is “le bad” we might as well turn it off.
Leave them on. It will be a good indicator of sentiment change once the majority of people realize Monero is their friend and will start to upvote anything Monero related. 😉
do not desactivate downvote.
Should i vote negatively on this post?, to indicate that i agree to follow the negative votes? 🤔
Yeah we get down voted by the rest of the federation and downvotes are mostly meaningless. Is there a way to turn off remote votes, not federate votes? Good feedback from our community is good, spam manipulation from outside is just noise.
Just keep posting these images whenever you feel like it. It will have a chilling effect.
is it possible to disable downvotes only for outside users?
Doesn’t look like it.
Or maybe your communities suck and people don’t like them?
If you do not like something best thing to do is just go away. You do not see any of us lurking around lemmy and downvoting posts about the best new ways to lick govt. boots.
Haha ok…
Or maybe a single attack by a bigger instance with more users is enough to put us down and actually reach more people, and we’ll never know what people actually feel by being constantly attacked for being small.
Thank you for phrasing it as a question. I can answer, but only for myself. I am a person and I like this community. I suspect others who have joined it do as well, by I’ll let them chime in if so.
I do appreciate you leaving a comment rather than just downvoting.
Have a good one.
tricky question. Maybe we need to get more of the reddit people to come here so we just get more activity here and the amount of external downvotes doesn’t way as much.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to disable them. I don’t want to live in an echo chamber or silence critics. Facing criticism will strengthen worthwhile ideas.
And it would rob the actual users of the instance of the ability to downvote content we don’t approve of legitimately.
But I do like that you’ve been making the voting and vote bombing transparent.
Is there a script or another way to make the voting parties visible to all users rather than just the admin? Or make it so a flood coming from external sources would be visible or filtered in some way?
It wouldn’t silence actual critics that have something to say because they would actually leave a comment… down voting is just away for trolls to shit on things without explanation
99% still believe govt. lies. And then come here to play nanny?
We could just change the rules: downvote means thumbsup … :) PLZ downvote, down, down, i’ll appreciate it !1!!
Or create a new button for ‘Double Plus Good’
maltfield@monero.town 9 months ago
No, please do not deactivate the downvote.
admin@monero.town 9 months ago
Valid point with the instance list.