Unpopular Opinion

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1. NO POLITICS

Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.

2. Be civil.

Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.

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Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...

Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.

5. No trolling.

This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.

Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

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Disabling downvotes by server admins on Lemmy is dumb and does not make any sense. (lemmynsfw.com)

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

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By default, Lemmy allows downvotes globally. However, when a server disables downvoting, it is similar to using a feature that is usually reserved for enterprises and very small, non-federated communities.

If a user prefer to not see downvotes, they can disable it by his favourite client settings, but the rest of the community should not miss this functionality for the pleasure of few users.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Scoring interactions is toxic.

Hmm, maybe... but if this is what you think, then why use Lemmy at all? This is basically a core function of the platform. If you just want conversation, there are other platforms that are built for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't seen many of them, if any that I can think of. Which do you know?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't like Mastodon, huh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Never really used it, I think I have it, but it's basically Twitter rather than a forum, right?