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

  • lemmyposter212A
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    09 hours ago

    I don’t think you can equate downvotes coming back to one rude comment, as I’ve said before please report any rude comments, they will be removed.

    I sympathize with the satisfaction of seeing a post doing well and that being affected by downvotes, and I will keep what you’ve said in mind. I think the benefit of pushing spam down will be greater than the effect it has on real posters, but that has yet to be seen, like I said this is a trial run. If you do keep posting please do report any apparent downvote brigading and I will definitely re-visit the issue.

    • @Radovic
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      18 hours ago

      Listen, you’re going to do what you want and so am I. And that’s fair enough.

        • @Radovic
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          18 hours ago

          OK, thank you.

      • lemmyposter212A
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        8 hours ago

        Would there be a compromise that would make you happy? Like rate limiting downvotes or something like that so that there’s some protection against mass downvotes? I am open to all feedback.

        • @Radovic
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          38 hours ago

          OK so the downvotes were turned on and I didn’t know about it and I checked in on that post, it had gone to minus one. And that felt a little bit shit.

          Next thing I have the thought, “Oh I had better go back to not making my titles funny, they don’t like that.”

          Then I had the, “Wait, why am I even doing this?” moment.

          So that’s the question I am asking in this conversation. Why should I get to feel a little bit shit every time I do a particular thing? And the answer is: I shouldn’t do that thing, isn’t it?