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TBH I'm very very very very surprised no one has done something worse with downvotes at a fediverse-level. Sometimes I refresh
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and posts that are 10 seconds old have 2 downvotes on them. All it would take is someone with 5 bots insta-downvoting everything to cause chaos. Tune that power onto specific communities and presto, you can make things disappear.I don't think disabling downvotes entirely is a perfect solution, but I wonder if there's another way to counteract trolls. Disabling downvotes at a community level would be the easiest way, but that still has a minor inconvenience of no longer being able to down-rank bad/offtopic content.