My wonderful co-admin @[email protected] has made a modification to the downvote system. It’s not currently enabled, but if we were to turn it on, downvotes would be available for use, but they would weigh 5 times less than an upvote.

Which is to say, it would take 5 downvotes to counter an upvote. This would let downvotes have an impact on what appears in the hot topics sort, but hopefully mitigate some of the more negative impacts of downvoting.

Are there any strong objections from Blahaj Lemmy users to enabling downvotes with this modification?

  • eyore_11@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    i like this idea!! it seems like a good way to counteract downvote spams while still having a way to express dislike