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I signed up for lemmy.world because I don't want to write an essay. Shout out to the lazy people. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] 69 points 3 years ago (16 children)

I signed up for Lemmy.world, because not having downvotes is stupid and leads to a shitty community.

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  • [โ€“] 36 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Ironic that three people downvoted this. But I agree, a "no downvotes" rule is designed to avoid disagreement and conflict, which is impossible on a public forum without extremely restricted expression. If the point is to be always be nice, why not disable open commenting and make users select their replies from a list of canned positive comments. 100% safety and positivity.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm torn on the whole no downvote button thing (I missed that when I signed up), but you can be still nice while having a discussion and disagreeing with people.

    I would argue that the downvote button can lead to exactly what you are describing though, no disagreement or conflict.
    Someone posts a unpopular opinion, a bunch of users downvote it to hell and poof!, no discussion or exchange of ideas. Just out of mind, out of sight.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 3 years ago

    That's only true if there is a downvote threshold that automatically hides downvoted comments, which I don't think Lemmy has implemented. I agree that downvoting can be used to censor and avoid discussion, but the justification for removing downvotes on Beehaw is something like "keeping a positive environment with no negativity from disliking" rather than making sure users have to voice their disagreements and not just smash the blue red arrow like cowards.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    There are issues with both sides of the down button debate, but I'm more for it than against.

    For a different take on the downvote button, yesterday I put a post up on a technical thread. I hadn't really read properly what the discussion was about, so my post wasn't really helpful even if well intentioned. I only noticed when I got a couple of downvotes. I looked again at my post, then at the OP, then realised my error. Eventually I deleted my post. So, in that instance, I found the downvote helpful to myself as well as for the rest of the thread: make sure I read the OP carefully. ;-)

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wait. Some instances disabled downvoting?

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, beehaw one of them.

    Maybe when they were a bunch of users it might have been a good idea to prevent brigading, but imho now that there is 1000x user activity it's needed. I already saw the first spambots posting spam for meds....

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I do kinda wonder if beehaw actually has downvotes not do anything for comment ranking and such, or if they just hid the button for it's users. Because I can still see a downvote button on beehaw communities, being from a different instance, and I often notice comments on that instance that do have a downvote or two, which seems to imply that it does actually record and send data about downvotes from other users

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