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Where did the downvotes go? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I started seeing a weird trend on Lemmy that I cannot understand.

Weeks ago, posts used to have downvotes and upvotes in the semi-rational range you would expect.

Out of nowhere, it seems like almost all the posts I see now have zero downvotes with some exceptions.

What is happening here exactly?

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For mental health reasons I've set my client to display the vote total, rather than independent up and down votes.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a good one, I also like instances that disable downvotes. Forces interaction rather than silent dogpiling.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The flipside of this is that sometimes a response is just plain wrong and a dogpile of down votes shows that to the rest of the community, so disabling down votes is not the cure for everything.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, it's definitely a tradeoff, but in my experience someone absolutely ratioing a comment, rather than leaving it uncontested, is far more effective. For genuinely bad content with no merit, mods can still remove comments.

[–] runiq@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's ratioing? Is that ratio-ing? Way too many vowels for my heat-addled brain

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea, lol. It's a terminally-online term for a reply having higher upvotes than the original comment, which due to the format of social media presenting the original comment first means normally the trend is the opposite unless the second comment is a banger or the original is awful (or both).

[–] runiq@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ohhh, I see. Thanks for enlightening me :)

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yea no prob!