Downvotes should be reserved for things like spam, links that lead to malware, posts that are off-topic, etc. Things that mods would normally remove.

My problem with downvotes is that people are using downvotes to downvote that things they don't like.

I have observed people heavily downvoting the following things:

• SPH
• Humiliation
• Cocks/gay
• Cuckold content
• Male gonewild posters
• Celebs
• OC posters that are not a perfect 10/10
• Niche fetishes

This leads to

1. People not wanting to post things
2. People who do like those things not discovering those things in hot/top
3. Less activity on the site overall because of decreased morale of posters especially OC posters

This is why I am in favor of disallowing downvotes.

Having upvotes is enough to determine which is "good" or "great" or even "bad" content in a community. Because the upvote count relative to other posts in the community tells how it was perceived by the community.

Having a more "targeted" home page may help people find things that they like instead of an endless stream of a big jumble of random content.

Reddit doesn't have this problem because no one browses the entirety of NSFW content by new instead there is an "all" but even that had NSFW content removed from it. So really people are browsing only by the things they have subscribed to meaning if someone were to downvote a post they don't like they would have to go out of their way to see it.

Another commenter with 0 posts and 0 comments in this community complaining about not being able to downvote posts.

and anything whatsoever that gets posted is considered valid content

Where did you get that from? There are mods in each community who set guidelines, remove off-topic posts, remove spam, etc. If you see inactive mods in a community you can request to take over the community.

So… basically just a shitty Instagram for nudes?

No one is forcing you to be here. If you don't like parts of it you can submit posts, create communities, give constructive feedback to improve this place.

Another opinion from someone with 0 posts and 0 comments on lemmynsfw

Trying to force conformity or censoring their contributions using down votes will only end in frustration and lower user count.

That is what has been happening the past 6 months on lemmynsfw. I'm very glad a change is being now to right this ship.

Says the person with 0 posts and 0 comments after 5 months.

What have you contributed to build the community here?

That's why we need a way to organize communities into different genres like softcore, hardcore, celeb, anime, etc.

And people can pick what their default feed has

Maybe in theory but that's not how they get used

All my posts in the Any Schumer get down voted despite it being on topic

and caused waaaaaay more work for moderators.

Hard disagree as a moderator of a bunch communities

This is a great decision and I applaud the admins for listening to feedback.

Nothing worse than having your posts down voted especially by people who are submitting no posts of their own.

I feel this too

Very discouraging

I understand not everyone likes niche celebrity posts or certain people but constant down votes makes me want to not post anything at all

Would be best to disable them imo

The daily active user count is going down from like ~220 to like ~110 people, people constantly down voting posts isn't going to help this community grow

Thanks for all the work you guys put into this place!

One of the worst things when it comes to porn is videos or pictures being deleted. Especially frustrating to browse old forums and none of the download links work or none of the images show. Or when pornhub deleted nearly 80% of their videos. There are videos out there which I am still looking for. Probably will never find again. Partly the reason I am a hoarder.

I'm personally holding out for sync for lemmy: https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy