I have just upvoted your post

FAQ

What does this mean?

The amount of number on your post has increased by one, and you now have an unfair advantage in the marketplace of ideas.

Why did you do this?

There are several reasons I may deem a post to be worthy of positive number. These include, but are not limited to:

• ⁠Rudeness towards libs, • ⁠Spreading correct information, • ⁠Sarcasm not flagged with a /s.

Am I a mod of c/chapotraphouse now?

No - not yet. But you should keep making posts like this in the future. I will be forced to issue additional upvotes which will give you further advantages.

I can't believe my post deserved an upvote. This must be a dream.

Not a dream, a spectre. It haunts the libs.

How can I get this to happen again in the future?

Accept the upvote and move on. But learn from this victory: your behavior will be tolerated on hexbear.net. I will continue to issue upvotes until communism wins. Remember: posting is a right, not a privilege.

We have altered the voting scheme. Pray we do not alter it further.

this doesn't even make sense. they can downvote us and we can't downvote them. we ratio them anyway.

I've never seen downvotes used for anything other than indicating to others who to dogpile on, without it a lot of people simply won't know which side of an argument they should be on

This isn't about Hexbear. As far as I know Hexbear federates downvotes but does not have downvotes, which puts us at a vote disadvantage. It's Beehaw and some others that reject downvotes from other servers. They send a 504 response to the incoming downvote request from the other server.

ATTN: if you make an acct at lemmy.world, use a VPN or ur privacy is at risk

It's cheating to remove the mechanism for astroturfing & troll campaigning. They're making me post, POST!

I got pig poop balls from a fucking moderator!

Wouldn't removing downvotes put us at a disadvantage when commenting and posting on another instance though? Everyone else can downvote us, but we can't downvote anyone. So any advantage we have by removing downvotes is undone by that.

do instances who log all their users IPs and use discord bots to scrape posts and comments violate their users privacy and safety?

talking abt lemmy.world for those unaware

Our posts are being subsidized on the global market, giving us an unfair advantage

Here's what we do, we allow downvotes but then remove upvotes.

I can't determine the quality of a post by how many people liked it. I need to see how many people disliked it! It's the only way!!!!

Capitalists: "Life is a soulless competition, and that's a good thing"

also libs: "noooo, China is cheating by having a worldview that uses cooperation! That's fucking fascist collectivism"

We have downvotes you just can't be a coward about it

Why are we looking at random Internet points again?

I simply turn off the federation. Most of the posts are shit.

Love how Lemmy has its own equivalent sphere to The International Community

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Internet currency manipulators!

hexbear should bring back downvotes, but only for posts on other instances