Honestly, I was never much into it. When I downloaded my (6 year old) Reddit account data, I had downvoted 9 things.
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i don't downvote if i disagree but if someone is insulting or something else
You imply that this is systemic. Well its not. Let me help you move past this:
Strongly Agree: +1
Agree: 0
Neutral: 0
Disagree: 0
Strongly Disagree: -1
If you are having trouble with working through this, and you Strongly Strongly Strongly Disagree then there is a 6th option.
Strongly Strongly Strongly Disagree: +1 562-379-4995
What? Iโm already doing this now. I just used to do Slightly Disagree: -1. Iโm not really having trouble doing it, I was just noting my own desire to change my habits.
I only downvoted some really racist comments on Reddit and the EA post as well.
My instance has downvoting disabled and honestly I'm glad it is. Downvoting never seemed to add anything to Reddit. If a comment isn't popular then people just won't upvote it
Hard disagree. Down votes shouldn't be disabled, and I'm disappointed that Beehaw has chosen to do this.
What about comments that give dangerous advice to an unknowing audience?
That's one good reason for down votes. People may upvote it not knowing any better, and when someone comes along to correct them, the damage is done. Other knowledgeable people can't downvote it to make sure that dangerous advice gets pushed to the bottom, they just have to hope those that upvoted come back, see the rest of the discussion, and remove their upvote.
No, you should reply and explain why the advice is dangerous. A comment might be downvoted for all sorts of reasons and so it doesn't send a clear message. Downvoting is like grounding your kids just because you are angry, without explaining what they did wrong. They will just conclude you are an arsehole that will punish them whenever you fancy. Which is exactly my opinion of redditors and why I stopped posting there.
Totally agree with this. I never downvote anything because it's stupid in my opinion. It just sends a message that certain opinions are not welcome. I don't want to only talk to people I agree with.
That assumes there aren't any popular opinions that you don't agree with in the slightest.
That's a great point, and I wouldn't mind if all instances used that policy.
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Been wondering if Lemmy should have some sort of variation on redditquette, particularly
Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.
Which if you weren't aware was a non binding unofficial rule on reddit
I joined Beehaw. We don't even have the option. The ethos is to at least attempt to give the OP the benefit of the doubt when we find problematic content (unless it's just blatantly trolling or in bad faith) and try to educate ignorance.
Otherwise, we just report and move on.
It will be interesting to see how the existence or lack of a downvote option affects communities over time. There's some interesting arguments to be made both for and against. And now we actually have a way to easily test and compare between comparable communities on different instances.
I don't think downvoting is a good thing. The argument is always "send a message to the user without engaging" but what you are doing is discouraging those users from posting and commenting at all.
I feel like upvoting content you agree with is a better method than downvoting content you don't agree with.
I've literally never upvoted/downvoted anything on Reddit or here, never understood the point of either. I read the thread & either engage or scroll on
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I think downvotes should be removed completely. They are useless, if a content is harmful or off topic you can just report it. With massive numbers of bots coming to Lemmy I think downvote brigades will be even more frequent. Why do we need to give a score to everything? Let's just enjoy good content and try to answer to bad one
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