It would be a useful feature for Lemmy.
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I liked the fact that we don't have downvotes here.
I'm actually interested to see how the lack of downvotes affects Lemmy's community and feel. I'm on kbin, which has downvotes, but I'm wondering if eventually posts from Lemmy will actually feel different.
Lemmy has downvotes, some instances just disable them
When I first entered this thread I was on your side. But in a twist of extreme irony, the first 7-10 disagreement replies explaining that giving a reason is better than a random downvote, I ended up siding with them. Maybe between blocking, reporting, and explanations, we have enough?
I would go as far as saying I wish the upvote button were gone too.
And I totally agree with you. If the downvote option is disabled then same should be applied to up votes. The arguments been put out here against downvotes also apply to up votes