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 think it’s needed. I don’t see the reasons we would disable downvotes. The instances we have federated with are not intrusively downvotig all posts. And they are some sort of feedback.