• Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Better than disabling it:

    • Understand it - low score boils down to “people don’t want to see it”. Everything else is assumption, and should be taken with a grain of salt.
    • Deal with it - you won’t be able to please everyone all the time.
    • Vote - if you see some post/comment that you feel like undeservedly downvoted, by all means, upvote it.

    I still wish that downvoting was multidimensional though. Negative feedback is important.

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      1 year ago

      Negative feedback is important.

      Exactly. Without it, we’ll have the same problem that YouTube has without dislikes, where a video with a hundred likes and a thousand dislikes appears as a generally liked video…

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        1 year ago

        Imagine a system that works like this:

        • upvotes - a simple click, as it is now
        • downvotes - you click the downvote button, and then specify a reason from a list (disagreeable, unfunny, inaccurate, off-topic, rude, disingenuous, etc.)

        So it’s a bit like Slashdot, but only for negative reactions.

        Each “reason” would be a dimension, as now you can measure content by funniness, accuracy, etc. And one of the effects of this system is that, if you are being downvoted, you’ll have a better grasp on why. It’s considerably more useful as feedback, for users in good faith.

        (It has a few additional advantages too; for example custom sorting filters, and the very fact that a downvote takes a tiiiny bit more effort than an upvote should encourage positive feedback over negative one.)

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    1 year ago

    Don’t worry about it. Many heavily downvoted posts are also clearly in violation of either the community or instance rules; e.g. non-news posts in a news forum, or bigoted posts on instances that don’t permit that.

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      1 year ago

      Well, in my personal experience people become emotional and downvote you about trivial comment that don’t break any rule. For instance, I was recently donwoted to hell for saying that I despise Mozilla and prefer to use Brave instead of Firefox. 🤷‍♂️

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          1 year ago

          But why? Why can’t I use a browser that work better for me and that I find more visually pleasant? It is this sort of hivemind thatg ruins communities. Also, for me heresy is not a negative word.

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          1 year ago

          Plesae, be my guest. If this makes you feel better… And please, forgive me for using a browser you don’t like /s.

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        1 year ago

        Mozilla followers are like a cult members. Mozilla has done a lot of good, but it’s far from perfect, but some people just refuse to accept any negative comments about it.

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    1 year ago

    It’s partly why I joined lemmy.one as they disable downvotes.

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    1 year ago

    Just engage, if you disagree with people. Engagement is much more useful than just donwoting and exposes different point of views.