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Do you want downvotes? (POLL)
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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From a user interface perspective, I think it's far less likely people will report spam than downvote when they do not like something. I suppose we both are only hypothesising here though.
I don't see offsetting as a good feature. It just seems to drive people into tribalistic up/down wars. What's the point of users seeing the net votes?
Only if it isn't a single button.
The point is the same as with hiding the yt dislike button. It helps people determine if something is of higher quality or not.
I do agree if it were not a single button the likelihood would be much further less. I would imagine ideally one tap to open a modal window and then one tap between 'This is spam', 'This is harassment' or type in Other : []. So maybe just moving the Create Report to where downvote button now is worth trying.
There is a fundamental difference between YouTube and Lemmy though - community members and community moderators. I think having a signal from dislike is much less needed because of it. However, I do think it would be nice (not impactful at the current size of community) to have a viewcount of some sort.