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Blahaj Lemmy Users - Downvote question (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My wonderful co-admin @[email protected] has made a modification to the downvote system. It's not currently enabled, but if we were to turn it on, downvotes would be available for use, but they would weigh 5 times less than an upvote.

Which is to say, it would take 5 downvotes to counter an upvote. This would let downvotes have an impact on what appears in the hot topics sort, but hopefully mitigate some of the more negative impacts of downvoting.

Are there any strong objections from Blahaj Lemmy users to enabling downvotes with this modification?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i dont really get why they were disabled to begin with

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because they are often weaponised against marginalised folk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

And here's a specific example: https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/146fb4d/downvotes/