They never are on the front page. Idk why you don't get this. If I sort by new I see them but only then. If I did see a post on the front page that I don't like, obviously it is just a matter of taste. It doesn't bother me that I can't downvote it.
The situation you described is asinine. First of all, a post with 100 upvotes should see the light of day, even if 500 don't like it. Something that recieves a large amount of upvotes and downvotes is controversial, not a bad post or irrelevant. It also assumes there are no moderators to correct things that are truly against what that community wants to see.
For posts that are severly off topic or is against the rules in some way, that is what moderators are for.
Not really in my experience. I can tell when something is disliked by how few upvotes it recieves. Instead of bad posts sitting at the bottom with -20 votes, they sit at the bottom with 1 vote. Functionally the same.
Youtube removing the dislike button was more about their attempt to obfuscate public opinion on things like movie trailers, game trailers, and the various videos related to big PR decisions by companies. The companies posting these things wanted a hosting place where only positive interactions are allowed, regardless of the topic in question, and youtube accommodated them.
It is still infinitly possible to distinguish bad videos from good ones without a dislike button on youtube. But it is much more difficult now to find out how many people agree with you that a video is bad, which used to be nice to know on things like movie trailers, game trailers, and big PR decisions.
Ok, I logged into jerboa.
Still no downvotes. Just because some apps can show the downvotes from the api doesn't mean they are federated.
For the record, downvote me. Please. I don't care. I like not having a downvote because it doesn't allow me to downvote other people. It helps keep me in a better headspace.
Only if you don't clean them in my experience, and they aren't particularly hard to clean. Just give em as good scrub when you clean the shower.
Maybe as far as the shock value but imo they are completely different. The bible verse is about absolute surrender to the christian god, where anything you might value as highly as god should be made lesser than him in your mind.
It seems like "kill the buddha" has the opposite intent, aggressively reject all notions of "other" or "authority" etc
I get what you mean, but IMO we are at the point where the "good christians" should be thinking of a different name for themselves and attempting to distance themselves from the rest of Christianity.
When the great majority of self identified christians are hateful, bigoted, and cruel, then Christianity as a whole is hateful, bigoted, and cruel. People outside of the religion do NOT see a distinction between those that actively advocate for hate and those that are just still showing up for church on sunday.
Ok the person who said "sorry for not understanding something that is only popular with nerds" made me laugh because... Bro you are on reddit. You are using the outdated nerd gathering place to complain about nerds?
I will never in my life understand people that think of intelligence and curiosity as negative traits.
Consolidating communities could be done sort of like multireddits, basically just an organizational tool, which didn't confuse people about the different rules, because it was clear which subreddit individual posts were on, and rules were clearly displayed in sidebars.
It could work in a different way, where the communities are more thoroughly merged, but there would be no reason for it to be anything but voluntary for the moderators of the individual communities. Presumably, the rules of the combined community would be something that would be discussed and decided on between the moderators of the individual communities that would enforce the rules.
They don't have the beefiest server ever, although most lemmy instances don't. I experienced that 404 page and a 502 page a few times over the last few days, there are just random moments, possibly due to high traffic, where it became inaccessible for a few minutes at a time.
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Neither of us are going to gain anything from this continuing.
I can actively observe no downvotes working fine in several instances. Not having downvotes doesn't bother me in the slightest.
You don't believe it would work, no matter what I say. You think not being able to downvote a bad post would ruin everything.
I don't want to talk about this anymore. If you want to see how it works to confirm or deny your assumptions, just go look at beehaw.org or something.