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I'm really enjoying no down votes on Beehaw (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I first found out it was an interesting concept that I was pretty neutral on but the more I engage/lurk with the community the more I enjoy it.

I generally don't post/comment much on Reddit because I tend to be extremely sincere and that's not always well received. Usually I don't get much hate, but what I do get is a lot of non-interaction mixed with downvotes. And it's just really discouraging when I'm just trying to share my thoughts.

But having no downvotes here is so nice because I'm not afraid that I'm going to get silenced into oblivion. Either people will actually engage with me (and maybe disagree, but in a meaningful way), or they'll move on and not randomly share their disdain via downvoting.

It's such a small change but makes a big difference. I bet a lot of people feel the same as me - it's more comfortable to engage here.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I gave you a downvote, not to be mean but to test it. Can others see it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So that is why a lot of down votes are used in this thread! It all makes sense now. I thought it was very weird because this is my first time seeing down votes on lemmy and there were so many everywhere. I got worried for nothing thankfully :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm on lemmy.sdf.org and I currently see 18 upvotes, 0 downvotes on bdonvr's comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am on Beehaw and see a downvote count of zero when I long press on the vote count. I have been curious about how it works when people from other instances interact with Beehaw communities and others that don't allow downvotes. I didn't know if Beehaw still receives that external vote data through federation, tallies it, and hides it or if it was dropped entirely. I guess there's also the possibility that votes are only registered to the local instance where a comment is viewed, but I hadn't considered that.