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?

  • Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So if you make a post to an external community that allows downvotes and then get downvoted, people on instances with downvotes will see them, but we won’t

    It would be nice to see the number of downvotes & upvotes on external communities just for the purpose of knowing what other people are seeing, but still have posts sorted with disregard for the downvotes.

    Although I’d imagine that’s a bit complicated (if even possible at all)