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Blahaj Lemmy Users - Downvote question (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My wonderful co-admin @[email protected] has made a modification to the downvote system. It's not currently enabled, but if we were to turn it on, downvotes would be available for use, but they would weigh 5 times less than an upvote.

Which is to say, it would take 5 downvotes to counter an upvote. This would let downvotes have an impact on what appears in the hot topics sort, but hopefully mitigate some of the more negative impacts of downvoting.

Are there any strong objections from Blahaj Lemmy users to enabling downvotes with this modification?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I prefer not having them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Totally fine with this, but I’m curious how weights/disabling downvotes works? Like does the 5:1 downvotes weight apply to downvotes everywhere, even on other instances that have normal weights? Or is it just for communities that are hosted on blahaj.zone?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i dont really get why they were disabled to begin with

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does this apply to all votes:

by local users on local posts
by local users on global posts
by global users on local posts

I'm curious how it works when factoring in other instances' interconnectivity.

Also are other instance users currently able to downvote posts on this instance?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How does this work with communities on other instances? Currently we can't downvotes those, but would this allow us to?

Anyway, I say either go all in or don't allow them at all.

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