Does the reddit style format inherently make for a toxic environment? Or is it a culture of toxicity from the influx of reditors? For lack of a beter example, on stackoverflow, when someone down votes you, it comes with a comment saying how to improve. On mastodon, people can’t downvote you. These platforms are a joy to use, lemmy is depressing if you post. Its depressing because every post or comment, no mater the quality comes with downvotes, and usually no criticism to accompany it, you are left not knowing if youve made a mistake, or if its just trolls, bots, or idiots. At the end you feel insulted not improved. What do you think?

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
    14•1 year ago

    Downvotes are not a reflection on you, they are a representation of how much everyone else agrees or disagrees.

    I don’t personally want the downvotes hidden or removed like how it is on Youtube.

    • s6original
      8•1 year ago

      I like the way it was here. Points seem to be working correctly or did. I think it’s a bad idea to put point totals on a users profile for everyone to see. I don’t think totals are or should be important. But upvotes and downvotes are indicators of how much value a reader thinks a post/comment has. You can’t tell the temperature in a room without numbers. But I would rather not see a reddit-like karma system.

    • Dusk
      1•1 year ago

      I’d like an option, user side perhaps that just tucks it away, doesn’t remove it just don’t show it

      • Rikudou_Sage
        1•1 year ago

        It can be done on an instance basis, there are instances without downvoting enabled.

        • Dusk
          1•1 year ago

          I just saw that lemmy.world has an option to hide it, shame I don’t see an option for it on memmy, I do see a hide total scores but doesn’t appear to do anything.

      • Scrubbles
        5•1 year ago

        This is why I’m in favor. I’m not the hugest fan, but if the alternative is YouTube or facebooks like system then I’ll take the downvotes. Otherwise you get the low quality like farms where minions memes are uploaded everywhere and there’s no way to say “we hate these, stop posting them”