I seem to recall that we did not had the option of downvoting posts, but I’ve noticed now the red arrow appears for me? Is it a bug, an error, was I blind before, or did the feature get added?

Image for testing purposes, I did not leave the downvote on the donations thread

  • MaybeALittleBitWeird
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    1518 hours ago

    You’re not blind. Downvotes were re-enabled again yesterday. There’s been no communication from admin regarding it though.

    • @SamdellOP
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      28 hours ago

      Odd choice, I’m pretty sure that the instances that don’t allow it have done it explicitly because that’s a fairly harmful way of engaging with a community - and also generally ruins post formatting

      • MaybeALittleBitWeird
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        27 hours ago

        It was a deliberate choice that was made about a year ago due to a lot of brigading and people being generally shitty to the already limited number of posters. I don’t think anything has changed regarding this though. I’m not sure what you mean by changing post formatting though as it really shouldn’t affect that.

        • @SamdellOP
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          25 hours ago

          By posts formatting I meant how vote and downvote can shift a conversation up and down, but on second thought the upvotes by themselves already change that, so it isn’t that big of a change

          Still sounds like something that is used more for harm than good, however

    • @[email protected]
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      -316 hours ago

      It’s sure to encourage people to share of themselves when they recieve two parts downvotes to every three parts upvotes. The lemmyverse is a hateful place.

      • MaybeALittleBitWeird
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        38 hours ago

        I was disappointed to see it as well and I don’t expect positive outcomes to come from it. We’ll see what happens though I guess.