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  • I guess people in general prefer this way - which is probably why 99% of Lemmy instances have downvotes enabled. You can choose any one of them :)

    For me, it makes me more stressed about posting stuff, specially since you can be downvote bombed just for saying you didn’t like X book, or whatever.

    It also makes me more stressed when reading comments, for some reason. Either when I see an innocent random comment with negative points - I feel bad for the commenter - or when I end up using it as a disagree button and get more stressed. IDK why.

    So for me, not having it is way better. Otherwise I maybe wouldn’t even have created a Lemmy account, and used the “opportunity” (Reddit down in flames) to be less online - which I guess would also be a great outcome.

    TLDR: some people prefer no downvotes, but most instances allow them. Your user is already on lemmy.ml, so why do you care?





  • falcon@lemmy.onetoChat@lemmy.oneWe Need Downvotes on Lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I recently had the experience where I was looking for a squid farm design in Minecraft. A Youtube video

    you would never know if the downvotes are because of video quality, someone not liking the narrator’s voice (or the content creator itself). As someone else mentioned, an actual comment saying it doesn’t work on a version is way clearer

    it’s also mostly (but not always) correlated with the quality and/or accuracy of the post

    it hasn’t been my experience in quite a few communities. People will downvote things they don’t wanna hear, even if it’s the truth, or just an opinion.