It has been almost a year since we disabled downvotes on HC. @Alice@hilariouschaos.com and I are interested to check in and read the room.
In short, downvotes affect how content is displayed here, and certain types of content gets reliably downvoted on Lemmy. For a comparison, look at:
https://hilariouschaos.com/c/Conservatives vs https://lemmy.world/c/Conservatives@hilariouschaos.com
Downvotes are often not used in good faith, and content will be buried at the bottom based on them. However, they are also a valid form of expression and I doubt anyone here is fragile enough to be affected by them.
What are your thoughts?
Man i would love that lol
I’ve done this one, let me know if you want to add other ones
What!? Cool ! Hell yea! I’m gunna look i might make a few. But I’ll send those to you to see what you think first