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

  • @SamdellOP
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    210 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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      210 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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        28 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