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submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It’s funny, true, and in the right community.

That's never stopped anybody before.

Seriously, more than once I've posted something completely benign, innocuous, and appropriate in a niche community that gets maybe one post a month, and that post receives a score of -10 or something. I don't understand it, but if you want niche communities to thrive, you have to quit caring about downvotes.

Personally, I think that they should only have upvotes, because downvotes are a negative experience for users, and they're too easy to game. You can have bots, sock puppets, you name it. And having a post with a negative score tells you nothing about why it has a negative score. Was it offensive? Who knows?

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 points 8 months ago

Some servers only allow upvotes. Some only show local downvotes, so it at least minimizes their impact.