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I signed up for lemmy.world because I don't want to write an essay. Shout out to the lazy people. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by p1mrx@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] Monkeyhog@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago

I signed up for Lemmy.world, because not having downvotes is stupid and leads to a shitty community.

[-] Andreas@feddit.dk 35 points 1 year ago

Ironic that three people downvoted this. But I agree, a "no downvotes" rule is designed to avoid disagreement and conflict, which is impossible on a public forum without extremely restricted expression. If the point is to be always be nice, why not disable open commenting and make users select their replies from a list of canned positive comments. 100% safety and positivity.

[-] LurkyMcLurkface@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

I'm torn on the whole no downvote button thing (I missed that when I signed up), but you can be still nice while having a discussion and disagreeing with people.

I would argue that the downvote button can lead to exactly what you are describing though, no disagreement or conflict.
Someone posts a unpopular opinion, a bunch of users downvote it to hell and poof!, no discussion or exchange of ideas. Just out of mind, out of sight.

[-] Gort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There are issues with both sides of the down button debate, but I'm more for it than against.

For a different take on the downvote button, yesterday I put a post up on a technical thread. I hadn't really read properly what the discussion was about, so my post wasn't really helpful even if well intentioned. I only noticed when I got a couple of downvotes. I looked again at my post, then at the OP, then realised my error. Eventually I deleted my post. So, in that instance, I found the downvote helpful to myself as well as for the rest of the thread: make sure I read the OP carefully. ;-)

[-] LurkyMcLurkface@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

In this case a reply informing you about the missunderstanding would also work. My hope is that one of the people downvoting will take the time to do that when there is no downvote button.