There are a few opinions floating around on either or not downvotes should be disabled.
I’m interested to see what everyone thinks and if there’s a majority consensus one way or the other.
So please reply in this thread with your preference and why. You can also debate it in the comments.
Edit 23-03-2024 - Thanks everyone for your feedback. It looks like opinions are split on this, with good arguments made on either side. As downvotes aren’t currently a big issue, we’ll leave them as they are and we can revisit this again in future if things change.
I don’t have a strong opinion on it, but fbxl lotide because of the platform it’s on doesn’t have downvotes at all, federated or otherwise, and nothing of value has been lost.
Actually, the one thing that I do notice when I’m on fbxl lotide rather than lemmy is I don’t have to know or care about when a bunch of redditors decide downvoting my comment into Oblivion, and that’s nice.
On the rest of the fediverse, downvoting isn’t even a thing.