Far too often, lately, I see lots of people worried about the number of downvotes, or making preliminary justifications and requests to not downvote particular posts.
Me? I don’t have to think about any of that. The content of the posts and comments determines their quality, not some artificial number that only represents whether people dis/like something.
Edit: Wow, a lot of people from other instances seem really offended that I don’t like downvoting and seem a bit confused that I’d be thanking my admins for something I appreciate.
If you like downvoting, you don’t have to move here. Enjoy your instance’s features. Welcome to the Fediverse.
Agreed. Hexbear doesn’t have downvotes either.
I find that it just discourages discussion by enforcing an already majority opinion; people pretend as if something being downvoted alone is proof of it being wrong somehow. And there’s the report button for things that actually break rules.
I haven’t interacted with a hexbear user for a while, but on this one I agree.