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Cake day: December 14th, 2023

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  • You saw how I react to things during this whole debate, I’m not the type of person you want dealing with your users. About twenty years ago I used to mod on an early file-sharing network and even that tiny bit of power went to my head and I started to go a little bit mad with it. It taught me that I’m not really a fit person to be in charge of anything but me 😁

    I appreciate the offer but I can promise you that you’d regret it. I want to stick to what I came here to do, which is share the pictures I’ve saved with other people.







  • All this seems very fair. I’m under no illusion as to the popularity of downvotes, I would say that damn near all of them want to be able to downvote.

    The question I have asked you and have asked @CombedSpaghetti is what motivates me or any of your other regular posters to post when they know that all their efforts can be nullified, for any reason you can think of, by someone pushing a button at the wrong moment.

    And you can’t. Not unless you cut us in on that sweet crypto action 😜


  • Yeah this time spam. This is admin Yay talking about it last year:

    Some people found it right, some people hated it, some people hesitated. At the end of the day, since we are on a disorganised platform like fediverse, I find the decision we took right. However, I was also annoyed by the lack of downvotes. So I searched for a solution.

    https://lemmynsfw.com/post/4962186

    Then he said this a few months later:

    As you may notice, downvotes have been completely off for the last few days. I did this because I couldn’t resist the pressure of some friends :/ I still don’t know what to do about this. The majority of members probably want it to be completely open. As mods, posters and admins; some think it should be closed, some think it should be restricted (I guess).

    I guess there is no solution that makes everyone happy. I realized I don’t have admin skills in stressful situations, I’m a fucking stupid lol :D I miss @gabe so much.

    lemmyposter212 suggested “fuzzy votes” or something that can work for us too. I think I’ll just ghost this issue for a while.

    https://lemmynsfw.com/post/7152586

    “Annoyed by the lack” and “:/” sounds like the admins just want downvotes. Well, it is their instance and they will have what they want.



  • To be quite frank, I don’t know why you’re even doing this. We had a discussion about it last year and all the same points were raised after which you turned them off, only to turn them on and have another debate a few weeks later and you then had to turn them off again. I think you know that you will probably have to turn them off again at some point. So how about you level with us, what is it about downvotes that you find so compelling?





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    2 months ago

    No, it’s you who aren’t entitled to content.

    If I have to make an effort to do something it has to be rewarded. Else why do it?

    You don’t wake up in the morning and whack yourself in the face with a teaspoon, do you? It wouldn’t happen because there would be no reward in it. Except for that one person in 100,000.

    So without me, and people like me*, you ain’t up or downvoting anything because no on is posting.

    *Unless you want to leave the posting to the bots…


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    I don’t like downvotes. I post stuff here, if it gets downvoted it can fail and go below the level of visibility that garners it more votes. People will downvote for any reason that comes into their heads. It’s almost like random noise but it messes with my post’s path to its intended audience.

    I don’t see what possible motivation I would have to keep posting when that is happening.