Comment on Viewing votes
Sal@mander.xyz 3 months agoThank you for your input, it’s very appreciated!
As for keeping down votes, I’d be reluctant to mess with a system that works as well as it seems to.
There is a toggle in the admin settings to enable/disable downvotes, and several instances do disable them.
This hides the button and the results from the UI - other instances can still vote, but it’s not displayed. This change would be easy to implement and revert messing up anything. Personally, I do think that having up/down votes is a useful metric more often than it is abused. Disabling down-votes might be a good match for an instance dedicated to, for example, sharing one’s own art, as users might feel more comfortable sharing in such a space.
jadero@mander.xyz 3 months ago
I didn’t realize that.
Strictly as a user, from what I can tell, there doesn’t seem to be anything that resembles rampant abuse of downvotes. I’m glad that is what is visible at the admin level.
Carry on, you’re doing great work as a community builder/manager.
Sal@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Thanks!
This is a comparatively small instance, the problem is more prominent in the larger instances!
Also, I just found out that there is a user-level setting to turn off the visibility of all scores:
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