Several people in the community have expressed frustration in regards to the
fact that any post that fits the community it’s posted to but is slightly out of
the normal post type like, for example, being more hardcore rather than
softcore, get’s a lot of downvotes by people who simply don’t like that
particular post. We have also had complaints that particular types of posts as a
whole get more downvotes even if they are in the appropriate community and are
the normal type of post for a community. This especially appears to be happening
to male content. Additionally we are seeing posts with more downvotes than a
community has subscribers, meaning people are downvoting content they don’t even
want to see in the first place. We understand some may not like some content of
a particular post or community, but downvoting posts discourages these posters
who are actually passionate/interested in the topic of the community from
posting again. Additionally, when posts are downvoted like that it can bury them
in our instance and especially in other instances, preventing them from being
viewed by others almost at all. After some discussion amongst the moderators and
admins,because of the reasons above, we’ve decided to disable downvotes at least
for the time being. What do I do if I dislike a post? - We recommend those who
would normally downvote a post they don’t like just, instead, block the user who
created the post, or, if the community is a topic you dislike, block the
community. That way, you no longer see those posts, but don’t effect those
posts’ visibility to other members of the community and instance. -
Additionally, you can view your “Subscribed” feed instead of “Local” so that you
only see posts from the communities you are subscribed to. What do I do if a
post doesn’t fit the community it’s posted in or is spam? - Please report the
post, either the mods of the community or an instance admin will remove the post
if necessary, as soon as possible. We have admins and mods online almost around
the clock, so these types of posts should be removed quickly. Potential future
post filtering on lemmy: - In the future it appears that lemmy may implement a
tagging system similar to flairs on reddit. This request
[https://github.com/Neshura87/Lemmy-RFC/blob/main/rfc.md] has piqued the
interest of the lemmy devs, so keep an eye out sometime in the (maybe not so
near) future for the implementation of that feature. As @[email protected]
[https://lemmynsfw.com/u/yay] has said in the comments: >Downvotes should be
used for posts you don’t like in your area of interest, and not for niche
communities you don’t like. > >When the RFC mentioned in the post is developed,
we will be able to have a more refined home page, this way we can enable
downvotes. > >But for now, please block users/communities as it supposed to be.
Please put any comments questions and concerns in the comments below, we are of
course always open to community thoughts and feedback, and want to work with you
to keep this instance an enjoyable and entertaining place to post and browse.
You can. Your downvote are not federated though. That means your instance knows about them, but can’t send it to lemmynsfw.com since it doesn’t want to know. Consequently no other instance will know about your downvote since they ask lemmynsfw.com for who voted and who didn’t and not your instance.
You will be able to downvote, but if the community in question is hosted on an instance that has disabled downvotes, your downvote won’t federate to anyone else. The only people who see it will be people on the same instance as you.
For users of an instance that has disabled downvotes, their timelines silently drop all downvotes, so those users see the fediverse without the impact of any downvotes, irrelevant of where they came from or what other people see.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
Rules
Any drama must be posted as an observer, you cannot post drama that you are involved with.
When posting screenshots of drama, you must obscure the identity of all the participants.
The poster must have a credible post and comment history before submitting a piece of history. This is to avoid sock-puppetry and witch hunts.
The usual instance-wide rules also apply.
Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)
Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.
Includes lore like how a instance got it’s name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc
(New) This sub’s intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don’t get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama
Is that even possible? Like, I would still be able to down vote from a different instance?
You can. Your downvote are not federated though. That means your instance knows about them, but can’t send it to lemmynsfw.com since it doesn’t want to know. Consequently no other instance will know about your downvote since they ask lemmynsfw.com for who voted and who didn’t and not your instance.
You will be able to downvote, but if the community in question is hosted on an instance that has disabled downvotes, your downvote won’t federate to anyone else. The only people who see it will be people on the same instance as you.
For users of an instance that has disabled downvotes, their timelines silently drop all downvotes, so those users see the fediverse without the impact of any downvotes, irrelevant of where they came from or what other people see.