As much as I like the wholesomeness of the concepts of upvotes only, I'd love to downvote idiots on other instances
I prefer not having downvotes enabled here. Instead of just downvoting your suggestion, I’m having to actually think about why and put it into words and contribute to the discussion. 😉
Downvoting usually impacts marginalized people far more than “idiots”. (Side note: this sort of casual ableism against people with mental disabilities is extremely common, but we can strive to do better.)
When I was on reddit, I would use downvote to mark a post as read if it was boring, since unvoted posts would show up on my feed again.
I'm confused, does this mean that if your account was created on an instance without downvotes you can't downvote thongs elsewhere where they're enabled? How does this work the other way?
Basically, our ranking algorithms here don't take downvotes in to account, wherever they come from.
Which means that if you view "hot posts" in a community on our instance and then view the same community on another instance, the ranking of the posts might appear different if they count downvotes.
Yeah, everyone from another instance can downvote things on our communities but we can't, neither on our communities nor on others
Not quite. Their downvotes don't influence our algorithms. So here on Blahaj Lemmy, their downvotes don't do anything even if their instance allows them to down vote.
Ngl, that's a little weird. Thanks for the clarification :)
