If you click on the “more” button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I’m not sure if this a
Is a good feature but it’s interesting to see when someone decides to reduce all of your content for no reason.
This is bug. It’s fixed in dev. Shortly before the great migration started a change was made to bring kbin in line with lemmy but the bit that calculated the “karma” was missed and so it still uses boosts.
Not that I agree with the concept of karma.
Though I was skeptical at first, I much prefer the “positive votes only” style that some Lemmy instances use. If you don’t have anything nice to say, etc etc etc. Downvotes, at least, seem to suppress peoples’ willingness to discuss controversial opinions.
I understand, but it also makes it a lot more difficult to quickly make trolling and spam disappear.
I think the Lemmy instances that disable downvotes are also the instances that have more heavy-handed policies and moderation. They’re essentially centralizing moderation to the admins and mods rather than relying on community self-policing through downvotes.
That’s a very excellent point and shows the necessary trade-off to make that work.
@trynn One could argue with that. But Beehaw arguments that even without downvotes a self regulating community in form of upvotes is still in place. Because upvoted comments are on top. So the effect with or without downvotes is basically the same, from regulation point of view. But with downvotes it has an additional strong psychological effect.
But you are also right that such communities without a downvote mechanism do actually try to enforce through explicit moderation.
I know from my Reddit days that people try to mute people by downvoting an opinion they don’t like. And once people have downvotes, many sheeps follow. And that in turn could lead to discussions that are popular only. That’s why I am actually not hating this concept.
Often, the option to downvote is the only thing stopping me from getting sucked into some stupid argument with an idiot. It is a massive productivity booster. Downvote and move on.
I wish kbin would hide posts with lots of downvotes…
Meh I’ll say what’s on my mind if I feel the need… whether ya like it or not doesnt trouble me