I’ve been so used to judging a post just by its popularity on reddit, but it’s actually so much more useful to have an idea of the downvote ratio. I’m glad we have that here.

It was a scandal when it disappeared from YouTube, but I didn’t realize it was missing from Reddit too for much longer!

  • @LootGoblin42
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    hm. The instance I’m on, lemmy.one, doesn’t have a downvote button or a ratio. Can each server owner configure it to remove that? Maybe I should switch instances! Is there an easy way to export all of my communities and migrate to lemmy.ml?

    • SpeedyCat2014
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      Yes, servers can disable downvotes. Beehaw does that, for instance. I’m on lemmy.world which allows both. I prefer both because I think it helps silence bad faith participation with less active moderation, but I respect that some places don’t want it.

      • @artaxadepressedhorse@lemmyngs.social
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        unfortunately, “bad faith” is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes I wish to very silently express my disapproval without alerting anyone that there has been disapproval. Everyone finds themselves holding a deeply unpopular/controversial opinion from time to time, bc the universe is a complex place. I see it more as doing my part to “slow the angry mob” when the groupthink starts to get out of control

      • @xavier666@lemm.ee
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        Is there an easy way to check what the “properties” of each instance? Example

        - downvote_allowed: true
        - max_image_size: 500kb
        - community_allowed: false
        - no_mail_login: false
        
      • poVoq
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        It also enables bad faith participation such as down-vote brigading.

        • BrooklynMan
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          21 year ago

          while that’s true, people will always find a way to be jerks. if people can’t be jerks with a downvote, they’ll express their jerkitude verbally, which is certainly worse. i just wish we could move beyond the point where a downvote (or a bunch) was enough to emotionally devastate a person-- or where people feel the need to do that to others.

          this is such a nice place now, but, then again, so was reddit in the beginning.

      • @GospelofJohnny@lemmy.ml
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        01 year ago

        Yeah, I’m definitely on the fence about it. I agree about the bad faith participation with downvote brigading, but I also feel that having downvotes is, overall, a good way to gauge community agreement.

        I think what I would like the most is a visible upvote/downvote percentage ratio. That way you could see not only the net upvotes - downvotes like on reddit, but the actual participation by the community.

        • @UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
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          01 year ago

          You can see it by hovering over the counter and looking at the tooltip, but yeah having both upvotes and downvotes prominently displayed could be nice as well.

    • exu
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      Enabling downvotes is a server setting so yes,the admin can disable that.

      And afaik there’s currently no way to migrate your profile to another server, you’ll have to make a new one.

    • AaxOP
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      Curious choice indeed, but yeah, instance owners can configure or code whatever they want!

      I didn’t find a way to quickly transfer an account between instances like on Mastodon though