• mrmanager@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    People still are arguing for downvotes here on Lemmy. I think they are poison to a good community. They are not helping to moderate - they are silencing opinions and creating echo chambers.

    • blueskiesoc@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      My philosophy on downvotes:

      If I don’t agree with someone here, I upvote anyway. Not because I’m a Pollyanna, but because I’m happy they’re here and supporting Lemmy by posting and commenting. I really want Lemmy to stay up and stable for a long time and provide what Reddit used to provide for the wider community. Reddit still does, but hopefully we can too. I’m talking about political and health issues.

      If it’s a mean comment, I do nothing and move on.

      If something is just messed up, that’s a message for the mods. I’ve messaged once so far. Someone posted information about a person (image and real-life contact info) and said they were performing cosmetic surgery on puppies. The image was of the person flipping the bird, so it was clearly made as a hit piece. Mods got rid of it within a day.

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        1 year ago

        As Reddit has proven, this is not how the masses use downvotes. I have seen unpopular, but harmless opinions be downvoted.

        I have seen people getting downvoted heavily by saying they don’t like x game. That creates echo chambers.

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      1 year ago

      I was a bit baffled by your post because it seemed odd, but it’s the second time today I’ve encountered someone mentioning it. It appears that lemmy.today is a no-dv instance; I presume it’s a server switch option. The rest of the instances I’m on all have up/down voting, and kbin, of course, has boost/up/down. Not that there’s anything wrong with it but, just so you know, it’s a feature of your instance and not lemmy-wide.