For some reason posts on our instance have recently gotten more downvotes from outside instances than usual and many posts look like this:
I personally don't like the idea of disabling downvotes but if the feature is mostly going to be used by outside users because crypto is "le bad" we might as well turn it off.
I don't think it's a good idea to disable them. I don't want to live in an echo chamber or silence critics. Facing criticism will strengthen worthwhile ideas.
And it would rob the actual users of the instance of the ability to downvote content we don't approve of legitimately.
But I do like that you've been making the voting and vote bombing transparent.
Is there a script or another way to make the voting parties visible to all users rather than just the admin? Or make it so a flood coming from external sources would be visible or filtered in some way?
This is how it works on kbin, so it's definitely possible.
It wouldn't silence actual critics that have something to say because they would actually leave a comment... down voting is just away for trolls to shit on things without explanation