I think it was such a mistake to implement the downvote feature in the first place.
We’ve seen from Reddit that all it ends up being used for is downvoting people who ask questions and people with opinions different to the rest of the thread. The worst part is that downvoting kinda has “momentum” in that people are more likely to downvote and be angry at comments that have already accrued downvotes, even if in another thread in the same community wouldn’t react in the same way.
And as much as people on Lemmy often act like we’re oh so different from Reddit, we really aren’t. It’s practically identical.
If the comment is spam, hateful, doxxing, or otherwise against the rules, there’s a report button for that. And if no mod acts on it, it’s probably not a community a typical person would want to contribute to anyway.
I only down vote political BS in non political subs. Anytime I complain that shower thoughts or some other random sub shouldn’t be the place to promote communism I get down voted
I think it was such a mistake to implement the downvote feature in the first place.
We’ve seen from Reddit that all it ends up being used for is downvoting people who ask questions and people with opinions different to the rest of the thread. The worst part is that downvoting kinda has “momentum” in that people are more likely to downvote and be angry at comments that have already accrued downvotes, even if in another thread in the same community wouldn’t react in the same way.
And as much as people on Lemmy often act like we’re oh so different from Reddit, we really aren’t. It’s practically identical.
If the comment is spam, hateful, doxxing, or otherwise against the rules, there’s a report button for that. And if no mod acts on it, it’s probably not a community a typical person would want to contribute to anyway.
I only down vote political BS in non political subs. Anytime I complain that shower thoughts or some other random sub shouldn’t be the place to promote communism I get down voted