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Why can't I downvote posts? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/main@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Sometimes I see a post that could really use a downvote, but I can't downvote it. I really think being able to downvote posts that are not great (rascism, tankieism, dumbass takes, etc) is a really cathartic experience and I miss having it from my old instance.

I understand wanting to remove downvotes to combat negativity, but I don't think it's a good idea. When YouTube removed dislikes, people missed having them.

Edit: A lot of people are replying to this saying that if someone posts hateful content, I should just block and report them. Which I don’t disagree with, but there’s always content that’s annoying enough to want to downvote, but not bad enough to go against the rules of the sub. I’d rather just downvote that sort of thing and go on my way than leave a comment saying “shit’s cringe, yo”.

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[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting.

So if I'm on the instance "Adama" and downvote a post on "Blahaj", does someone on "Cremmy" see the downvote or not - will Adama tell Cremmy?

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the community is hosted on Blahaj, Blahaj won't federate it to Cremmy

But if the user is a Blahaj user, posting on a group on instance Django, Django will forward the downvote to Cremmy.

However, in both of those scenarios, Blahaj itself will ignore all downvotes, meaning that the sorting algorithm for Blahaj users looking at content, local or remote, doesn't take downvotes in to account