Which - to me - is a good thing.

Do not know what downvotes are.

// image title: a lemmy post which shows a multiple of comments in regards to its upvotes/downvotes

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    By community, do you mean just this particular Lemmy community or the community on Lemmy collectively? If the latter, there are other alternative Lemmy communities on other instances that may be better suited for you.

    You mean “the former”. But this is a counter-argument that dares not speak its name. My proposition is that all online communities suffer when opinions are downvoted (which is how the downvote button is overwhelmingly used), not just this community. Just as all dinner parties suffer when someone points their finger at someone else and says, “Shut up, you’re wrong”.

      • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        This is to explicitly invalidate other people’s opinions. We are talking about points of view expressing civilly, not about irrelevancy.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Would a dinner party suffer if it had 10,000 people at the table and instead of saying “shut up” people could just turn the volume knob down on someone else a little, but nobody’s voice would get silenced unless more people turned the knob down on them than up?

      What if the dinner party were open invitation?

      Downvotes fold comments and sort them last. It’s signal inhibition.