Names blurred to protect the innocent / crazy. Not trying to call anyone out, just thought the response was hilarious and highly disproportionate. Like, they distinguished that comment (green border/background).
For reference, the comment I presume that was downvoted that apparently triggered that response was to the tune of “BoTH SiDEz!!!” with some hyper generalizing / stereotyping on the side.
What do you mean?
It still shows upvotes.
Yes obvs everyone else who has downvotes implemented can see them. But if you personally don’t like how downvotes are being used, then your experience will be devoid of them. Which is a great personalisation feature.
So lets say I post something to a community on my instance, and someone on lemmy.world downvotes it. I see a score of 2 upvotes and they, and everyone else that is federated with lemmy.world and gets their activity pub updates see a score of 0.
At first the cooking community was small when I moved instances, when downvotes were off there were multiple people who seemingly subscribed just to immediately bury the posts. When I looked at it from anywhere else everything was -1 and it was annoying.
I would like an implementation of this where if the instance has downvotes disabled that those activitypub updates were ignored.
Wait really, it shows downvotes as upvotes? I believe that is wrong. It just doesn’t show downvotes.
I’ve seen heavily downvoted comments show up with like +3 scores or something, while on lemmy.world they show up as -54. And if you check on web it will show 57 down 3 up.
Weird, Lemmy is beta software and this was on another version to be honest. Regardless the implementation of it is broken. There is no algorithm here so is isn’t doing anything but burying comments. I’d prefer ratio amount of comments than drive by possibly bot down votes on this server I run for my IRL friends.
I think bigger picture I’m only going to participate in my own comms, ignore and immediately ban the kind of people that post on drama comms with all the context removed, mock people for being “crazy” and to be diminished and dismissed because I am a victim of American politics and not in support of their partisan bullshit and push back. This guy