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[POLL] Allowing downvotes only to community members
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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I mean...what did you think downvotes were for?
Downvotes should be reserved for things like spam, links that lead to malware, posts that are off-topic, etc. Things that mods would normally remove.
Downvotes are for down-voting. The entire idea is to give feedback. You are positing that it's only meant for cruft, when the entire is for unliked content, hence, a downvote.
If I show up in the thread and start posting puke pics, I expect downvotes being the compass to telling me where I'm not welcome.
You're saying that all content should be welcome, unless it's for the silo reference you mentioned. Disagree. If you're being downvoted, this might not be your crowd. Your assertion certainly says so.
The problem is that people downvote from c/all, just because Joe Blow doesn't like it, so content is buried that that specific community would like.
Hence, in the original comment, what seems to be your average straight guy seeing cocks and gay stuff will downvote, whereas people that subscribe to that community would enjoy it. I have niches that your average dude finds weird too, and I don't want stuff I would like to be buried just because MOST people don't want to see it.
Sure you can bring up that they should mute those communities, but everyone knows people just j/o and scroll and don't bother doing anything other than one-tap or click feedback.
So limiting the downvote to people subscribed to that community makes a lot more sense. It makes sense overall now that I think about it. There is stuff I would downvote on my regular account if it's posted in the wrong place that I would upvote if it was in the right place.
Up- and downvoting are ment to be opinion based. You are supposed to upvote what you like and downvote what you don't like. Things like spam, or other things that are against the rules are ment to be reported. The reason for this is that the report will reach a moderator, but a moderator has no way to automatically be notified whenever you downvote something.
That's why the report button exists.
No.
It is like and dislike.
Stop trying to justify it as anything else.
Exactly, I agree with you!
Lots of people browsing all local communities probably downvoted posts in communities they weren't members of. In especially more niche communities this can mean that the downvotes from people who aren't in it can drown out the upvotes from people who are. Allowing only upvoting means that the number reflects who many people actually actively liked it
Edit: ah sorry, just read the comment from @justsillyme@lemmynsfw.com below and they said pretty much the same thing I did but better.