I’m searching around for a lemmy client to that has the option to hide downvotes altogether.
I don’t mind if downvotes are still counted on the instance side, i just don’t care.
wefwef only shows totals, if that’s what you’re looking for.
If you truly only want to see the effect of upvotes (including on comment ordering), I’m not sure where to go for that.
Maybe facebook?
Voyager
that hides votes altogether or shows the total.
i still want to see upvotes.
Hold on, so if a piece of trolling got 1 upvote (from the poster) and 20 downvotes you want it to look and rank like a new 1/0 comment?
Yes. I don’t need the hive mind to tell me when someone is trolling.
I assume truth social has this feature!
In the day i’ve been using Mlem to hide downvotes it has made my experience much more pleasant, especially in this thread.
If people want to make their displeasure known to me they can reply.
I think Lemmy should do something new, enforce creating a comment when downvoting.
No
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There, I did it!
Let’s try it… No.
It’s just going to turn into a spam fest.
What I like about downvotes is they let what’s controversial be shown as controversial and similarly what’s just an unwelcome idea be shown as such.
Yes but often people just downvote stuff without saying anything to it. If they would put a comment there, it would at least be clear that they didnt read past the first line
I think that’s a better consequence than the alternative, which is that people stop downvoting spam because they’re tired of writing out “this is spam”, “this is unrelated”, “this is racist”, et cetera.
Most likely scenario is that the people who continue to downvote just comment a single letter or something to make their downvote count.
if i dislike something, I don’t always want to have to explain myself. sometimes i just dislike something and want to show it by a simple click. specially on mobile I don’t want to write a comment each time. otherwise i would just stop voting completely instead of writing a comment each time i downvote something.
Sometimes others have already made a comment explaining your exact opinion of what you just downvoted, so instead of spamming more comments you can downvote one and upvote the other which explains your opinion.
