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What is your opinion on the lack of downvotes? (lemmy.ca)

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

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I’m not from Lemmy.one, but I was wondering what you think of not having downvotes. Do you like having the ability to downvote, or not being able to downvote and why?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I like it, allows you to take posts at face value without any downvote bias

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This is probably the main reason I’m considering switching to lemmy.one. Whenever I view a comment or what not, I can feel that I have a bias towards the person being upvoted instead of the one being downvoted. It seems to make it harder to take the post/comment for what it is.

Not only this, but I sometimes end up worrying if I’ll get downvoted for saying something, so I feel like no downvotes is the way to go. Do you know if any Lemmy clients support not showing downvotes if your instance doesn’t have them enabled?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Memmy and Voyager both let you hide the downvote column, or select total votes between them which results in the same thing if you’re on a downvote disable server. Other apps may also allow it.

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

Thanks

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