thing is... in the end, karma doesn't serve as that anyway (indicator of quality). It's so easy to karma farm by (re)posting content (sometimes even stolen) in multiple communities.
In NSFW communities, at least on Reddit, I see SO MANY posts that doesn't fit the community they were posted in, but being upvoted anyway because... well... it's nudity
I loved forums, and we didn't have anything, except for 'total posts' and 'total replies' for users. I like that.
I do like upvoting, but I think karma should be hidden. Maybe if you go to user profile and click a button to see the value. It should not show if you hover over the user in a discussion, like Reddit. This is too much incentive for Karma farming.
I don't like downvotes, and that's the reason I'm on lemmy.one - no downvotes here at all
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because I don't want anybody downvoting me on any instance, and I don't want to see downvotes in discussions or have discussions being weighted by downvotes.
exactly. The housing market already sucks for people to be buying a 2nd house specifically to use as AirBnB to profit
I guess people in general prefer this way - which is probably why 99% of Lemmy instances have downvotes enabled. You can choose any one of them :)
For me, it makes me more stressed about posting stuff, specially since you can be downvote bombed just for saying you didn't like X book, or whatever.
It also makes me more stressed when reading comments, for some reason. Either when I see an innocent random comment with negative points - I feel bad for the commenter - or when I end up using it as a disagree button and get more stressed. IDK why.
So for me, not having it is way better. Otherwise I maybe wouldn't even have created a Lemmy account, and used the "opportunity" (Reddit down in flames) to be less online - which I guess would also be a great outcome.
TLDR: some people prefer no downvotes, but most instances allow them. Your user is already on lemmy.ml, so why do you care?
I kinda get it, but why would a post be controversial and at the same time not a reason enough to either report or block the user that posted it?
I recently had the experience where I was looking for a squid farm design in Minecraft. A Youtube video
you would never know if the downvotes are because of video quality, someone not liking the narrator's voice (or the content creator itself). As someone else mentioned, an actual comment saying it doesn't work on a version is way clearer
it’s also mostly (but not always) correlated with the quality and/or accuracy of the post
it hasn't been my experience in quite a few communities. People will downvote things they don't wanna hear, even if it's the truth, or just an opinion.
-1 in terms of a comment score? If you can't downvote, yes, the score is never going to be negative.
That's the beauty of federation: you can choose any of the 90% (or higher) of Lemmy instances that allow downvoting, instead of one of the few that doesn't :)
you can, but it won't have effect on lemmy.one, because it's going to discard downvotes
I like that.