Today after updating Voyager the downvote button was gone. What is the reason for removing it? Is lemmy going the way of YouTube?
Does it matter? Who cares about imaginary points?
While one could argue for the usefulness of the downvote button, the very nature of a mostly anonymous platform like Reddit and Lemmy will naturally lead to its misuse, completely negating its usefulness.
It matters that if there’s an option to upvote, there should be an option to downvote. Why have only one? What is the point of some instances having just one of them while others have both? I don’t care about points but I like to see how controversial something is when I read comments.
The issue is the bandwagon effect. When a post is downvoted other users will do the same without reading the content or forming their own opinion. Some apps hide heavily downvoted comments like reddit which lead to suppressing some unpopular opinions and discourage people from speaking their mind. Hate speech should be reported and misinformation should be debated with strong arguments
Moderators and users don’t always agree on what hate speech is. For example, people often use my mental disability as a pejorative for people they don’t like. Half of them claim they weren’t really talking about my disability and it’s just a coincidence they used the same word. The other half will say they 100% intended to accuse the other person of being disabled. To me, both are unacceptable.
Button works/exists for me. I’m using the default mobile site.
I don’t know but I’ve always thought this sort of place should have 4 buttons for a post. Relevant Irrelevant, I like, I do not like. This way people could disagree with something, but show that they think it is a good fit for the magazine.
I disagree. There is rarely a relevance for like/dislike and all upvotes and downvotes are, should be viewed as and used as indicators of relevance.
Upvote what you find relevant/interesting, not what you like.
Downvote what you find irrelevant to the community or what uses language that you find inappropriate for that community, not what you don’t like.
I downvoted this because I don’t like it.
Where is your god now?
I assume you mean, that you disagree with my idea. In this case I find it a somewhat valid use of a downvote within the system that I outlined. But if everyone downvotes what they disagree with, before actually engaging with the content, it turns Lemmy into just another echo chamber.
No I think you’re right, but it’s unenforceable and indistinguishable. Being hung up on it is silly IMO. More transparent to just do 2 sets of arrows.
Sometimes the internet needs to tell you that your content is relevant and also people think you’re s fuckwit :).
Probably right
“Indicators of relevance” is fine in theory, but that’s (allegedly) how it was supposed to work on Reddit too, and… it really didn’t. It will turn into agree/disagree for a significant amount of people who either don’t know or care how voting was intended to work.
Well at the time of writing your post has -2 votes so I’d say it’s working!
I’m seeing -4 so clearly.
In the perfect world there would be no stupid downvote button. It makez everything toxic. If you don’t like something just ignore it, critisize or block the user
Please see my reply to another comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/1968065
Downvoting on its own is fine, but if you’re thinking Reddit then I’d agree. That’s because Reddit actively hides shit based on it, though - and also because Reddit is an intensely toxic shithole, of course.
