Voting is decentralized moderation. It's harder to navigate content in servers that disable downvotes. I get what you're aiming for here, but the downside is not worth it for me.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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I agree, I won't argue against their usefulness. I just meant disabling them for myself personally. I used to tend to judge posts and comments from their upvote/downvote scores rather than their actual content, now I can see them for what they are, in my eyes. I found that pretty cool and refreshing.
I understood that, your message was clear. I don't want to be blind to votes for my own sanity though (filtering out potentially damaging interactions). Different strokes for different folks.
People will upvote and downvote for any reason, but often do so simply because they agree or disagree with the post. A good moderator does not moderate based on their personal opinions. I would rather not rely on votes for moderation because it's terrible for that purpose.
Without downvotes how will I be able to tell who won an argument??!
Easy: Everyone's a loser in an online argument. 😉
I like it because I'm less likely to vote just because others have upvoted it. I'm more honest with what I actually like and dislike
I dunno, it isn't universally beneficial.
Votes, particularly down, can have a cooling effect on assholery.
Voting is faster, and people are lazy. So there's a tendency for people to just vote and scroll on. Remove down votes, and you get more snark if mods don't intervene.
It's kinda hit or miss though
Does this apply to both posts and comments?
I could see possibly trying it for posts but I’m pretty sure I’d still want comment scores.
In the Eternity app you can disable that separately
Yes but on posts you still see the upvote percentage so if the percentage is very low, you know that the votea is negative
I did this for downvotes. Because like idk i find they are quite petty sometimes. And the satisfaction of having a bigoted take have 50 downvotes is emulated in the fact u see a bigoted take wirh 2 upvotes followed by a reply with 64 upvotes.
I only have upvotes and downvotes on Jerboa, no scores.
I don't get how anyone cares to pay attention to them or consistently upvotes or downvotes. I have to be significantly moved to do either.
You would be very surprised at the lengths some people will go to in order to weaponize the way someone else votes on a comment or post online. People really couldn't be any less petty.
I'm a huge fan of the lack of downvotes on blahaj because it seems to make me focus on the negative less when I can't interact with it without commenting and taking a ton of time to do so.
But upvotes are still useful because I get some amount of filtering of the absolutely crazy stuff most of the time.
it's the only way to run the platform in my mind. It removes a lot of the hive mind aspect of it letting you just enjoy the platform how you want and give /your/ opinion of things instead of others opinions of things. I've had my scores disabled since a month or two after I started and it's been so much more enjoyable.
thanks! very helpful in decluttering and prolly peace of mind for those that chase after internet brownie points.