genuinely helpful and honestly meaningful (especially if you’re going to invest any level of your mental health in posts (which i don’t recommend but is natural if you try to post what’s on your mind)) being able to see like, oh even if 20 people downvoted me, 7 people agreed with me, i have seven fighters. it’s so much better to see that and get a fuller picture of how your comment was received.

i remember seeing reddit make that change out of nowhere for no reason and thinking…jesus, this is the beginning of the end

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    410·
    11 months ago

    It’s also great that you can join a server with downvote disabled entirely and just ignore everyone who has a problem with it. And/or turn off vote display entirely in some apps and not feed the scoring addiction at all. It’s such an effective cockblock for people who specifically say dumb things like “enjoy the downvotes.” Nope, joke’s on you, pal. Nothing but positive feedback on my end.

    • Garbanzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      11 months ago

      Ignorance is bliss, but the rest of us see you getting trashed when you say dumb shit

      • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
        17·
        11 months ago

        Also, fuck them birds, they’re destroying orchard crops at the moment. No sympathy. If my cat catches one, I’m giving him a treat.

      • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
        212·
        11 months ago

        This coming from the moron who thinks coyotes are on Maui.

        Doesn’t matter, go off with your circle jerk.

        edit: to whoever replied to this, good for you, whatever it was, apparently I’ve already blocked you, or voyagerapp deemed it unnecessary to show it to me.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Now that you mention it, I haven’t seen any “enjoy the downvotes” comments on Lemmy yet. Can’t say I miss it.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        With the plethora of sorting options given here, the votes can truly be meaningless. Like if you sort by New Comments, the only thing pushing a post to the front page is someone making a comment on it. So the only stuff you see every time you refresh the FP is something people are actively talking in.

        The numbers really only matter in Active, Hot and Top. And New Comments is a much better way of finding out what is both hot and active, even when it’s only hot and active because people hate it and are expressing how much they hate it.