Here you go, a down vote from me just to see if the down votes still work.
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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For mental health reasons I've set my client to display the vote total, rather than independent up and down votes.
That's a good one, I also like instances that disable downvotes. Forces interaction rather than silent dogpiling.
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.
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.
What's ratioing? Is that ratio-ing? Way too many vowels for my heat-addled brain
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).
Ohhh, I see. Thanks for enlightening me :)
Yea no prob!
Don't worry I gotcha covered
The girls have picked them every one, oh when will they ever learn when will they ever learn
Some instances turned off downvotes. While on the other hands some accounts are mass down voting. For reason I don't get, upvotes are public but downvotes are private. IMO downvoters name should be available too
People are mostly cowards/can't handle disagreement and criticism and they don't wanna drive engagement down? ๐ค
It's user instance specific. lemmy.blahaj.zone, for instance (where my account is from) has downvotes disabled entirely - I can't add them nor view them.
It is a bit of a pain to be honest, since my old lemm.ee account allowed me to do both. I suppose I could email my instance admin to ask for clearance or an explanation, but I think that'd border on unnecessary nagging. I can still see the total regardless.
I believe blahaj has similar reasons as Hexbear.net for why they both disable downvotes, downvotes have been documented as especially targetting queer folk, especially trans users. Removing downvotes removes that visibility. In Hexbear's case, it's also to promote discussion, not sure if blahaj has similar aims on that front.
Idk what you're talking about. More often than not when I talk against hedonism, 'sexual liberation' and moral relativism I get a good chunk of them... ๐ The day that changes Imma have to leave Lemmy and go yap somewhere else!