Old habits die hard, but there’s Reddiquette which needs to be revived, and some which needs to die.

Many “golden-age” redditors remember a time when downvoting was reserved for hostility, not a different opinion. For the sake of our growing community I would like to implore everyone to be awesome to each other.

However, this place is not Reddit.

  • We don’t measure in bananas here.
  • We don’t need to append “edit: typo” to edited posts and comments.
  • if you see something which is worthy of a downvote: down vote and move on! Don’t engage with it and feed the algorithm/engament machine so other people are exposed to it when sorting by active.
  • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
    2·
    1 year ago

    You’re being really thoughtful and this is a good discussion.

    I read through all the other comments and I’m disagreeing with a few other viewpoints from others pretending like aggressive downvoting/brigading is an individual’s problem.

    Perhaps a feature request to Lemmy could be an option. Rather than a binary choice.

    Votes as is, upvotes visible/downvotes not visible but measured, up/down not visible but measured, no downvotes, no votes at all.

    Discussion instances could work around what works best for sorting and discussion, general could work what’s best for them etc.

    Forums didn’t have upvotes for years and it worked just fine.

    • Zozano@aussie.zone
      2·
      1 year ago

      Its a much better discussion than the one I’m having elsewhere, that’s for sure. I sure do love being strawmanned. I was hoping it would be more than a week before I encountered this lol.

      • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s the problem with having an opinion.

        Are you bring downvoted heavily? That’s the only way I know to know if I agree with you or not.

        • Zozano@aussie.zone
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m only slightly in the negative numbers. So you’re completely justified in starting from a place of skepticism.

          Come back later. Once I reach -5 you can be vindicated in knowing that you were right all along.

          • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
            2·
            1 year ago

            It’s not about being right cause I don’t know what right is. The downvotes tell me if you’re wrong, that’s different. I can then feel safe.

            These posts are sarcasm, by the way. Dont start downvoting, people!

            • Zozano@aussie.zone
              3·
              1 year ago

              You’re absolutely right. When the upvotes are high on a post I have a different opinion about, that just means they’re all suffering from mass delusion.

              These posts are NOT sarcasm. These are sincerely held beliefs and would (and will) be regarded as admissible evidence in court.