Currently downvotes are enabled on a trial basis, this was done by me to see if they can be enabled to prevent spam from rising to the top of communities, along with the fact that is another form of interaction/feedback.

However I’ve gotten some pushback for this and so I’d like to see the general consensus of this decision. Please put any comments/concerns in this thread, and please vote here: (Link gone poll is done)

the results of this poll and the comments will determine if we keep or remove downvotes again

  • Radovic the Unreasonable@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    1010·
    16 days ago

    No, it’s you who aren’t entitled to content.

    If I have to make an effort to do something it has to be rewarded. Else why do it?

    You don’t wake up in the morning and whack yourself in the face with a teaspoon, do you? It wouldn’t happen because there would be no reward in it. Except for that one person in 100,000.

    So without me, and people like me*, you ain’t up or downvoting anything because no on is posting.

    *Unless you want to leave the posting to the bots…

    • CombedSpaghetti@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      127·
      16 days ago

      Lol I’m sorry but you’re are entitled to nothing when posting. If people like it, great you get upvotes. No one is entitled to those votes though. If you were, then they’d be meaningless (or at least more meaningless haha)