This instance (lemmynsfw.com) has removed downvotes. I have shown my negative attitude to downvotes in this reply (NSFW) to a [] post. I hope and think that I didn’t have significant impact on this decision.
I want to use this post as a reminder that this community is not focused on one specific gender or one specific sexuality. This community is intended for any pre 2000 NFSW, porn or erotic content (as long as it doesn’t break the instance rules of course). I really hope Lemmy introduces a tag/flair feature in the future so people have an easier time filtering out posts that don’t fit their preference.
I encourage everyone to report posts that break instance or community rules. I also encourage everyone to reply with contructive criticism to posts that they don’t like, if possible.
Edit: clarification, I meant negative attitude to downvotes
I’m famous! (Your link goes to my reply to your comment instead of the parent comment for me)
Hmmm, that’s weird. I did actually copy the link of my comment.
Downvoting is a legitimate feature of any posting site, especially if something doesn’t fit the theme or spirit of a category and is just posting for coverage, like advertising for onlyfans by sending the same pic to multiple threads. I guess ‘report post’ is going to become more toxic as a consequence.
I hope this is temporary until we get a tag feature because downvotes is a self-protection mechanism if something that shouldn’t be there posted on a certain sub. I was already seeing such posts and now we don’t have downvotes to repulse them. This will just lead to increase in unrelated posts or even self ads.