I seem to recall that we did not had the option of downvoting posts, but I’ve noticed now the red arrow appears for me? Is it a bug, an error, was I blind before, or did the feature get added?

Image for testing purposes, I did not leave the downvote on the donations thread

  • lemmyposter212@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    101·
    8 days ago

    I enabled it to see if the brigading of down votes had stopped, and because off topic posts have been made to communities but were making it higher up in communities because down votes were not enabled, but that is only really a side reason.

    I think downvotes have their place in forums like reddit and lemmy, when not abused. If I see reports of abuse again, they’ll be disabled.

    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I think you should add sidevotes while you’re at it. With no explanation, just because. Let the users figure them out.

    • Samdell@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Well, let’s see how it goes, I guess. I’m not a big fan, and lack of downvotes was a good reason to feel more comfortable here.

    • MaybeALittleBitWeird@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I agree with the secondary reasoning of irrelevant community posts. I report quite a few posts for that(mostly from content creators just spamming any and every community). Running a test is fine, but I don’t think much has changed about the primary reasoning though I’m afraid. It might help with the spam at least because that’s been bad recently.

        • Radovic the Unreasonable@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          21·
          8 days ago

          If you look at my profile, you can see one picture that I decided to leave. It attracted, so far, 4 upvotes and three downvotes. The net score is 1, which is the same as if I hadn’t bothered posting it. Easier not to bother.

            • Radovic the Unreasonable@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
              42·
              8 days ago

              Why should I get any at all?

              You ain’t paying me, it’s rare that people leave a comment thanking me, although some users very kindly have. So all that’s left is the pleasure of seeing a post do well. Unfortunately, because of the mechanics of the board if a post doesn’t do well in the early part of the day or is rushed off the front page by a rush of content then it rarely becomes visible to the Americans when they come online.

              And returning to the last post standing, OK it’s not a popular post which I would know if the score was 4. But four people liked it. It bought a very small but significant amount of pleasure to their visit here. Why should it be necessary for people to downvote it? I already know that they are part of the overwhelming majority of people that didn’t upvote it.

              Last point: go look at the one comment on that post. I haven’t had a comment like that before. But it happened the day the downvotes got turned on.

              • lemmyposter212@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                21·
                8 days ago

                I don’t think you can equate downvotes coming back to one rude comment, as I’ve said before please report any rude comments, they will be removed.

                I sympathize with the satisfaction of seeing a post doing well and that being affected by downvotes, and I will keep what you’ve said in mind. I think the benefit of pushing spam down will be greater than the effect it has on real posters, but that has yet to be seen, like I said this is a trial run. If you do keep posting please do report any apparent downvote brigading and I will definitely re-visit the issue.