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.

  • Lovstuhagen
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    8 months ago

    There has not been an issue present with downvotes so far but pro-active policing is at the heart of everything, right…

    You could make it so that only comments can be downvoted, because I think it says enough if a topic does not have much action going on concerning it, and I feel that the rael big issue is when you see topics getting habitually downvoted by a single person who is going throough and d/ving every single topic

    • AliceMA
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      8 months ago

      That’s a good idea on the comment thing