Which - to me - is a good thing.
Do not know what downvotes are.
// image title: a lemmy post which shows a multiple of comments in regards to its upvotes/downvotes
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Tabs are better than 4 spaces
100% agree.
I configure my editor to use 3 space characters per tab. I’ve worked with people who prefer tabs represented as 2 or 8 or just about any number. But I can look at the same code as them worth my preferred look.
Also works best for line length restrictions. A tab is a single character and always is.
A fellow Trinitarian Tabber!
Die alone on that hill, brother.
Yeah, it’s the strange thing about engaging post titles - people seem to be so busy answering them, they ‘forget’ to also upvote them. In contrast, a meme that’s funny but about which there’s not much to say, is more likely to get an upvote as some kind of compensation for the lack of discussion.
Its a silly system that only worked on reddit for a short while. If you are old enough you’d know that already from slaahdot karma development/history
/. 's moderation is the closest any moderation will get to ‘adequate at best’, but vastly imperfect.
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If a post is interesting enough to write a comment, it also deserves an upvote.
Maybe
For me it’s categorizing radical ideologies correctly. I just hate people throwing around buzzwords, calling anyone a communist/fascist they disagree with. Those words have meanings. You can actually be worse then the fascists and still not be one, it’s not impossible. You can still be hated for that, but you didn’t automatically become one, because you are right-wing and coincidentally an asshole. But the moment someome calls you a fascist, while you’re just an asshole, their opinon automatically becomes invalid and wrong.
Downvotes without any response: This is unpopular with this community, but probably correct.
Downvotes with responses: This was either contentious or wrong.
1 upvote, 0 downvotes, 10+ responses: You posted something really dumb, and Hexbear found out.
You posted something
really dumbcriticizing china, and Hexbear found out.For me it was having the audacity to state Holodomor was real,
while denying it is actually a crime in my county.Looking it up it actually isn’t, but it’s widely accepted to have happened and is taught in history lessons.You posted something really dumb criticizing china.
I turned off vote display and rarely miss seeing the votes. See also Facebook Demetricator.
Sounds like an interesting experiment. Know if I can do this using Boost?
IDK what Boost is here, but Voyager and the standard web UI can both turn off the vote display.
Why not just deactivate all votes. Seeing having voting makes Lemmy more like Reddit. Also deactivate all votes will help to have more discussions. Due to users can’t just downvote you and call it a day. They have to tell you why and how you’re wrong.
How in the world would you sort posts?
I sort them by “New”.
Absolute mad lad
op, this is what downvotes are for
Semi-tangential. Every time I get downvoted, I move an inch closer to the exit door of this community.
I’m talking about comments rather than posts, of course. And it should go without saying that the comments in question do not contain factual errors or even rudeness. Just pure opinion, expressed civilly.
Downvoting is, almost always, poisonous behavior in an online community. It is just as poisonous as saying “Shut up” to someone in a real-life social situation.
IMO the corporate social networks get this fact better than the literalist geeky types and other well-meaning idealists to be found in this forum.
You might find a better environment at Beehaw? Not my cup of tea, but each to their own.
Yes, others have suggested that too. Thanks.
I heard downvotes expressed a consensus that a comment or post does not hold value in the context of that community. It’s not “shut up” but more “well that’s not relevant”.
Unfortunately people don’t see voting systems as a method to highlight the relavency of a contribution. They see it as a like/dislike system, and so I see as shut up signal used by most because downvoting a contribution buries it to the bottom where few people will see it.
If it was used for relevancy and quaility then communities would be self regulating by the users. I believe Reddit’s guidelines state(s/d) it’s voting system was meant to be for relevancy, even though most people use it as a like/dislike system.
Unsure if you’re even being serious here. The relevancy of the subject matter is not in question. The issue at hand is that people are downvoting opinions. Forgive my directness but if an opinion does not hold value in the context of the community, that seems to me just a waffly way of saying that the opinion is not welcome in the community without actually saying it.
