My ability to downvote posts in a community should not depend on the mod of that community being ok with it. “This is my community, and I don’t want downvotes” would only be an acceptable attitude if seeing the community at all was opt-in, but it’s not. Everyone sees everything unless they’ve already blocked the community or user.

Thankfully it’s easier to block a user than it is to create an account.

After I participated in the other thread, I thought of a couple more scenarios where downvoting is useful:

• “this post is low effort”

Downvoting is a useful feedback tool to say hey OP, I have given your post an amount of my time that your low effort post did not earn. Try harder next time.

• “we don’t need yet another community for this topic”

If a person creates a new community for a topic that already has one (or more), to get around the community blocks that users have already put up, that’s functionally very similar to ban evasion. I’m tired of blocking repeat communities. If I see a person make a new community for a topic that is practically identical to one that exists, a downvote is warranted.

I’m not telling you my opinion should overrule the other arguments here, but it’s better to have all sides present so it’s not just an echo chamber.

Yes I like having downvotes. I use downvotes to notice trends of spam so I can better identify who to report/block.

That site sabotages the back button, fyi.

ALSO the downvote disabling feature never worked as intended. It only blocks lemmynsfw accounts from downvoting anything, lemmynsfw or otherwise. THIS account could already downvote anything federated.

Idahoans, feel free to pop over to Oregon for some good food and covid vaccines!

Maybe wrong community? Scientific paper in a world news community, with no clear conclusion in subject line

Matt Smith sweating furiously

Let’s start with all of the sedition-enablers before we move on to the bribe-takers.

Yeah, not likely.

he was arrested after being rescued while trying to ride from Florida to New York after drifting 30 miles south of his departure point

How do we know education is failing in Florida?

New York is north of Florida, not south.

Dude’s a shithead regardless of what language he expected the kid to speak

You are making some logical leaps. Just because certain rapists like alcohol does not mean everyone who likes alcohol is a rapist.

That’s conjecture.

As someone who drinks, living in a temperate climate, I imagine the desire for alcohol would go up in a cold region.

I mean, alcohol is something I like, regardless of where I live. Why should Antarctica suddenly make me stop liking beer?

Utah

For the other 99% of people who don’t know where the fuck “Ogden” is

Task failed successfully?

I read “Mother is arrested” and thought it was referring to Mike Pence’s wife

Crazy they couldn’t just export it. Bunch of countries love wine

Orange blubber