That’s right I upvote every post I can! Its nice to be here and I hope this place keeps growing like it is and takes the place of reddit. Have a great day!

  • @Caboose12000
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    361 year ago

    I actually disagree. I think downvotes are very useful for when someone posts the wrong kind of content to a niche community without it necessarily breaking the rules. a good example would be reddit’s r/bonehurtingjuice. a core element of a bhj is that the comic is unedited except for the text, so if someone posts a comic with an edited last panel that shows an extra character, it would make sense to downvote that post to indicate that it doesn’t fit the sub well, even if the resulting comic was still funny/good.

    idk maybe that’s toxic, but I think it’s a better solution than outright deleting content like that when the content might still have value

    • @[email protected]OP
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      91 year ago

      hmmm thats an interesting dilemma, no upvotes means no way for users to bury “bad” content. But downvoting definitely contributes to “toxicity”. its gonna be cool to see how this all plays out. i wonder because when youtube got rid of thumbs down i was upset, but part of me is happy there is no downvoting here. i think the difference is this place is “small” and so i feel a need to work with people to have an outcome we both like because its in both of our best interest. where as on a platform with millions of users you almost don’t care what individuals think because there’s tens of hundreds of thousands of more people that are gonna come along and my lizard brain just wants to be accepted by the masses. i mean it makes sense, we as humans havent had to deal with the opinion of millions until now, 100 years ago we’d all be worried about what Jeffery nextdoor thought of us or whatever.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        I think this all just goes to show that there is no “hivemind” here. Nobody is getting mass downvoted, but because it’s a small community, the rule of 1% doesn’t apply and there’s therefore no bad content to be buried.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      That is the case in reddit, but here people tend to stick to the topic of communities, and even if someone posts something that doesn’t fit in, our communities are small and a little bit of off-topic posting doesn’t hurt anyone.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      I think the solution is to report the post if it violates rules of the community. Reporting doesn’t always mean it’s racist, homophobic, etc. I haven’t reported any posts on Lemmy (no need to yet), but on Reddit you could choose why you were reporting the post.

      You can also just be more proactive in upviting the posts that you like. That will still bury bad posts.