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Downvoting is also inportant. Missing downvotes is what make Twitter and Facebook so annoying. People need feedback for what's socially acceptable, unfunny or unpooular. Also, when you make a troll post, how are you gonna know it hit home 😉
Their feedback is their comment being removed and/or them being banned for a period of time. In most cases said person is acting in a way that is either flat out harmful or disrespectful, downvoting is like booing, you wouldn't boo a person for vandalizing, assaulting, or raping someone, you call the police. Similar story here.
The minor piece is opinions, which honestly, suck it up. This platform doesn't need to and frankly in my opinion shouldn't cater to people who can't handle other's opinions. Lemmy has a problem with apparent issue legitimacy at this time where issues reported aren't seen as valid and that you should just "downvote or block" people, so by weeding out snowflakes and excluding them it makes communities healthier, removing downvotes is one part of that.
People will make funny comments (that's what happens in 196), though if you went to far it might get removed, you might get a message from the admins about unacceptable behavior, or you might just find yourself banned for a period of time.
Lemmy just isn't busy enough for that. Unless you're looking at "all" you're going to see pretty much every post in every sub you're subscribed to. And if you're watching "all", then upvotes will curate your experience just fine.
And ultimately, it's a moderation issue, not an admin issue. It's certainly not something I'm going to turn on, opening our trans users to revenge votes, just to avoid a questionable niche scenario
Depends on how the Blahaj admins feel about misinformation, but in general misinformation is pretty bad and if you are operating in bad faith you will likely be actioned, especially since reports aren't like Reddit where they target specific rules, they are a written response. basically anything that operates as bad-faith is getting the axe here, there's extra incentive for it.
Another thing to keep in mind is that malicous actors can give themselves fake upvotes if they have multiple accounts of different names. In that case it's best to not even bother with Booing them and just get to giving them the boot (ban evasion can't be proven so actioning upvoting accounts only when you can prove a correlation between them, oherwise you'll ban people who simply upvoted them).
yeah, I think it's a significant problem that I can't downvote in places where other people brag about downvoting.
Isn't having their content removed a lot more effective than downvoting at letting them know it's not acceptable?