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Do you want downvotes? (POLL) (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Currently downvotes are enabled on a trial basis, this was done by me to see if they can be enabled to prevent spam from rising to the top of communities, along with the fact that is another form of interaction/feedback.

However I've gotten some pushback for this and so I'd like to see the general consensus of this decision. Please put any comments/concerns in this thread, and please vote here: (Link gone poll is done)

the results of this poll and the comments will determine if we keep or remove downvotes again

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (17 children)

No downvotes. People use it as a "this isn't my fetish" button and everything even slightly niche gets sent to oblivion. Especially bad for gonewild posts where people's self image gets involved.

Also using a Google doc for this poll seems like a bad idea since people who aren't from this instance can vote

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (16 children)

You are using "some people misuse a thing" as a rationale to get rid of the thing.

If someone posts fetish x on a vanilla community, they should get downvoted. If they post that same thing in a community about fetish x, then the community can simply be blocked by those so inclined.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

If they post that same thing in a community about fetish x, then the community can simply be blocked by those so inclined.

Yes, they could. But that's not what's going to happen.

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