Not really in my experience. I can tell when something is disliked by how few upvotes it recieves. Instead of bad posts sitting at the bottom with -20 votes, they sit at the bottom with 1 vote. Functionally the same.
Youtube removing the dislike button was more about their attempt to obfuscate public opinion on things like movie trailers, game trailers, and the various videos related to big PR decisions by companies. The companies posting these things wanted a hosting place where only positive interactions are allowed, regardless of the topic in question, and youtube accommodated them.
It is still infinitly possible to distinguish bad videos from good ones without a dislike button on youtube. But it is much more difficult now to find out how many people agree with you that a video is bad, which used to be nice to know on things like movie trailers, game trailers, and big PR decisions.
If you remove downvotes you remove the recourse users have to push down bad content. A bad post with 100 upvotes and 500 potential downvotes should never see the light of day because the community decided it’s a bad post. But because no one can push it down and there isn’t enough content to push up over it, now a bad post 10 people would have seen and pushed out of the system is now bothering well over 500 more people because you couldn’t downvote it.
The situation you described is asinine. First of all, a post with 100 upvotes should see the light of day, even if 500 don’t like it. Something that recieves a large amount of upvotes and downvotes is controversial, not a bad post or irrelevant. It also assumes there are no moderators to correct things that are truly against what that community wants to see.
For posts that are severly off topic or is against the rules in some way, that is what moderators are for.
The situation I described has been abused in reddit through even the downvote system by various subreddits for everything from memes to pushing presidential candidacy. Imagine the_donald in a world without downvotes.
Dude… You should get paid for this, you are too skilled at being annoying to do it for free.
It was just an example of a functional link aggregator with no downvotes. There are others you could look at. None of it had fucking anything to do with federation, or your opinion of the community, or anything like that.
Can we be done? Do you have some last things you wanna say before I leave and don’t come back?
These examples you show are small and not proven to be viable. Beehaw for one had several problems outside of not having downvotes that make it as an example problematic, and Lemmy as a whole is such a broken experience right now that you can’t use anything here to prove that having no downvotes is viable either.
If you can’t downvote bad posts, then you will see a massive rise of bad posts. This is why YouTube removing the dislike button was such an issue.
Not really in my experience. I can tell when something is disliked by how few upvotes it recieves. Instead of bad posts sitting at the bottom with -20 votes, they sit at the bottom with 1 vote. Functionally the same.
Youtube removing the dislike button was more about their attempt to obfuscate public opinion on things like movie trailers, game trailers, and the various videos related to big PR decisions by companies. The companies posting these things wanted a hosting place where only positive interactions are allowed, regardless of the topic in question, and youtube accommodated them.
It is still infinitly possible to distinguish bad videos from good ones without a dislike button on youtube. But it is much more difficult now to find out how many people agree with you that a video is bad, which used to be nice to know on things like movie trailers, game trailers, and big PR decisions.
If you remove downvotes you remove the recourse users have to push down bad content. A bad post with 100 upvotes and 500 potential downvotes should never see the light of day because the community decided it’s a bad post. But because no one can push it down and there isn’t enough content to push up over it, now a bad post 10 people would have seen and pushed out of the system is now bothering well over 500 more people because you couldn’t downvote it.
The situation you described is asinine. First of all, a post with 100 upvotes should see the light of day, even if 500 don’t like it. Something that recieves a large amount of upvotes and downvotes is controversial, not a bad post or irrelevant. It also assumes there are no moderators to correct things that are truly against what that community wants to see.
For posts that are severly off topic or is against the rules in some way, that is what moderators are for.
The situation I described has been abused in reddit through even the downvote system by various subreddits for everything from memes to pushing presidential candidacy. Imagine the_donald in a world without downvotes.
Neither of us are going to gain anything from this continuing.
I can actively observe no downvotes working fine in several instances. Not having downvotes doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
You don’t believe it would work, no matter what I say. You think not being able to downvote a bad post would ruin everything.
I don’t want to talk about this anymore. If you want to see how it works to confirm or deny your assumptions, just go look at beehaw.org or something.
Let’s go look at beehaw after they defederate from everyone lol.
Dude… You should get paid for this, you are too skilled at being annoying to do it for free.
It was just an example of a functional link aggregator with no downvotes. There are others you could look at. None of it had fucking anything to do with federation, or your opinion of the community, or anything like that.
Can we be done? Do you have some last things you wanna say before I leave and don’t come back?
These examples you show are small and not proven to be viable. Beehaw for one had several problems outside of not having downvotes that make it as an example problematic, and Lemmy as a whole is such a broken experience right now that you can’t use anything here to prove that having no downvotes is viable either.