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Does the reddit style format breed toxicity?
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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Downvotes are not a reflection on you, they are a representation of how much everyone else agrees or disagrees.
I don't personally want the downvotes hidden or removed like how it is on Youtube.
I like the way it was here. Points seem to be working correctly or did. I think it's a bad idea to put point totals on a users profile for everyone to see. I don't think totals are or should be important. But upvotes and downvotes are indicators of how much value a reader thinks a post/comment has. You can't tell the temperature in a room without numbers. But I would rather not see a reddit-like karma system.
Yet every app seemingly wants to show me a total :(
Yeah, I wish there was a feature that lets you switch between total-only and lemmy format.
I’d like an option, user side perhaps that just tucks it away, doesn’t remove it just don’t show it
It can be done on an instance basis, there are instances without downvoting enabled.
I just saw that lemmy.world has an option to hide it, shame I don’t see an option for it on memmy, I do see a hide total scores but doesn’t appear to do anything.
they did remove downvotes on youtube tho :(
This is why I'm in favor. I'm not the hugest fan, but if the alternative is YouTube or facebooks like system then I'll take the downvotes. Otherwise you get the low quality like farms where minions memes are uploaded everywhere and there's no way to say "we hate these, stop posting them"
lol that is a very good point