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Idea: Lower the impact for down votes (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made a post on r/ukulele where I seek help finding vegan friendly ukuleles. Instant-down-vote because of the V-word hindering it being discovered by those interested. It's not offensive, I specifically ask to keep discussions on veganism out of it and I stayed polite about the topic - I think? Mind you this is not the worst case of instant-down-vote of non-controversial or non-offensive honest posts on Reddit. It's the hive-mind-tribe thing of Reddit doing it's thing as usual.

What if down votes had reduced "power" or impact/value. Up-votes are a full point and down-votes are .5 or .75 of a point in order to prevent instant-reptile-brain-knee-jerk down-voting because of a small difference in opinion or world view. So that there have to be two people down-voting for one integer point to count.

What do you folks think?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I'm personally not a fan of arbitrary weights for up vs downvotes. If downvotes do bother anyone, there's a setting to hide scores now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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