I went through the options on the Lemmy and say you can turn off all any display of voting and even the icon for the voting feature. Has you done this? Has it changed your experience of Lemmy?
I use Lemmy a lot to debate or read other people’s perspectives. While content is more important than the vote count, I’m still interested to see what are (un)popular opinions here (knowing that it definitely doesn’t represent the general public!).
Unfortunately, seeing the votes immediately also increases your bias towards posts or comments, so it may have a negative impact on on your individual free thinking.
An ideal compromise for me would be to see how other people voted, but only after I voted myself.
I’m using an app called Thunder and I have voting turned off for posts. For threads I have an up vote arrow when the comments are expanded, but if I collapse them I can see the count, which kind of does what you’re asking? No idea how I managed to get that configured though.
That would be a really cool feature
Already exists. Go to your user settings and deselect show upvote and show downvote scores.
I’ve turned them off. For some reason my brain takes vote numbers really personally and not seeing them makes me feel freer to comment whatever I like. Also I think the text/replies should speak for themselves.
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Speaks for itsef!
Kinky.
I decided to make an account on libretechni it’s federated and it has no down votes just want to see how that works out
I chose blahaj not just because I support our trans brothers, sisters, and non-binaries, but also explicitly because it does not federate downvotes.
There’s a massive difference in how it feels to only see upvotes alone.
If you consider upvotes but ignore downvotes wouldn’t that give you quite a weird picture in case of controversial posts? Assuming there’s a racist or transphobic post with 100 downvotes and 5 upvotes, would that be displayed as +5? Or does it not show any votes at all?
It displays as +5.
racist or transphobic
That stuff just gets removed. Admin and mods on blahaj don’t fuck around, really.
Thanks for the explanation. Maybe my example was too extreme but unless they remove everything that’s even slightly controversial, that can give a pretty wrong impression IMO. Wouldn’t be for me at least.
When it looks like this
+5
+100
+3
+86
You can still tell.
Sometimes that’s just the up/downvote train. Sometimes people will just see the first couple of comments in an argument and just downvote/upvote alternatingly. Despite the idea that the votes are usually for what contributes to discussion, and not agree/disagree votes…
As @[email protected] got at, it encourages ratioing and directly countering instead of silently downvoting. Bad takes are more directly combatted, and furthermore minority groups can’t be downvote harrassed.
I like the idea of an instance not having down votes that way. I assume that you could go to another instance and participate and no one could down vote you
Why No supporting us non binary trans people :'(
Is ‘non binary trans’ a thing? I hope I don’t offense anyone but so far I though…
- Trans = swap male to female or vice versa
- Non-binary = no defined gender / neither male nor female
If you’re non-binary what do you transition from/to?
Transgender is a gender thats different from what your assigned at birth. Not binary. Can be any gender.
So if I’m born male and identify non-binary, that would be considered trans as well? If I got that right my definition of trans was apparantly too binary. :D
If you are assigned male at birth yes, remember that sex and gender are different things.
Trans just basically means your not the gender you was assigned at birth. So yes it was to binary and thank you for recognizing that. Very much appreciated
Thank you for the explanation!
Edit: If you don’t mind a follow-on question: Is my former binary definition applicable when we’re talking about ‘transsexual’ rather then ‘transgender’? And when someone says just ‘trans’ in the queer community without any suffix, does that typically refer to -gender or -sexual?
Transsexual is an old, negatively coded word (with use as far back as the Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975). Transgender is the preferred nomenclature.
It was a derogatory term that implies that being transgender has something to do with sex and not an expression of gender.
Asexuals, who are disinterested in sex, can be transgender. Calling them a “transsexual” implies that there is a sexual expression happening.
When you express your gender (whatever it is), do you feel like you are being sexual? I would wager most don’t think they’re being sexual simply walking around being who they are.
That’s why the term for non-trans people is “cisgender” not “cissexual.”
I’m sorry I didn’t mean to imply I didn’t support the non-binary among us, that was bad phrasing on my part. Of course I support their right to be who they are.
Totally understandable, just was pointing it out. :) no worries
