Really loving the new experiences here on Lemmy.one. But I’m seeing many subs with off-topic posts. Community downvotes will help overworked mods find and remove such posts. I understand no one likes to be downvoted but it’s a necessary tool for our community and only helps users understand and refine what and where they are to be posting their content.

  • BurningnnTree@lemmy.oneEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Yeah I don’t think it really makes sense to disable downvotes for everyone on the instance. Why should I be unable to downvote something on an external community when everyone else viewing that community has the ability to downvote?

    • True Blue@lemmy.comfysnug.spaceEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      As far as your instance is concerned, no one can downvote, even outside of your instance, because downvotes are rejected by your instance. This means that downvotes from other instances aren’t visible to any users of your instance or any other instance that has downvotes disabled, and they don’t affect the sorting of posts.

    • Gunther@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I agree with this, I have no problem with Lemmy.one disabling downvotes for its communities, but it’s frustrating not to be able to have the option in external communities which allow downvoting.

    • falcon@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      because I don’t want anybody downvoting me on any instance, and I don’t want to see downvotes in discussions or have discussions being weighted by downvotes.