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@lemmy.oneEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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
      • artaxadepressedhorse@lemmyngs.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        It also enables bad faith participation such as down-vote brigading.

        • BrooklynMan@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 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.

  • LostCause@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Same, first positive thing I noticed. This really feels like Reddit in the beginning–I like it!

  • manned_meatball@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    at least Reddit showed the upvote - downvote balance, YouTube only shows upvotes, which is a completely useless number.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    What I really hope to see is some client-side algorithms that can let you track who vote-voted-for-what. This way, you (your client) could ignore downvotes if you detect brigading or rings and it could boost a particular post if it happened to be upvoted by a friend of yours.

  • 133arc585@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I really like that you can hide scores on posts and comments altogether. I don’t like seeing the upvotes or downvotes. I don’t want to base my opinion on a comment or post on what other people have felt about it, and so just not seeing their reaction to it at all helps prevent that. I don’t think popularity is necessarily a useful factor to consider in judging a post or comment. This is one complaint I have about the Jerboa app right now, is that it doesn’t respect the Hide Scores preference.