Mastodawn

Are votes actually ruining niche communities?

Been thinking about the voting system lately and how it inevitably kills in-depth discussion in growing communities. Every sub/community follo…

Lemmynsfw solved this by disabling downvotes. I don’t think memes were a problem there.

An alternative is strong moderation to keep off-topic comments and posts out.

My instance disables downvotes and it’s much better.

I really think removing downvotes or requiring the downvoter to explain the downvote would make communities better.