Should I disable downvotes? (yiffit.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It often makes me sad seeing some posts receiving downvotes, even though I know it's from random people across Lemmy instances who probably aren't furries.

I could disable downvotes which would make it so that they're ignored by the instance and the count would only reflect the amount of upvotes. But, that also means that Yiffit users wouldn't be able to use downvotes anywhere else.

What do you think?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Another thing which may or may affect things is that disabling downvotes also seems to grant Yiffit users immunity to them. So if anyone here goes and starts making trouble on other instances, it might be a bad look if other users on those communities couldn't downvote Yiffit users' comments.

Or at least I think that's how it works after doing a bit of testing on a beehaw post in a non-behaw community. Apologies if I'm mistaken.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, we wouldn't be immune to downvotes. We just wouldn't see them. On instances with downvotes enabled users would be able to see the downvotes we receive and their algorithm would take that into account.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do those downvotes get federated to other instances?

I guess I've got it in my head that the original copy is the "source of truth" and any downvotes not visible there are somehow "not real". Sorry about that!

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