Right now, downvotes (reduces) don’t federate to (and from?) Kbin instances. This lack of federation makes the downvote counter really inaccurate—a comment that looks like it’s +10 might be -15 when you look at it from lemmy.world.

This leaves me with a few questions:

  • Is downvote federation going to be implemented?
  • If so, is it a priority or something that’ll happen much further down the line?
  • If not, will downvoting be removed?
  • bluGill@kbin.social
    2·
    11 months ago

    Come to think of it, I think downvotes should become a message to the mod - either delete this unacceptable content, or remove the downvote. I’m not sure what the logistics of that are though - I’d be shocked if there are not serious unintended consequences of that.

    • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      11 months ago

      If you want to get the mods to take something down, that’s what the report button is for. Downvotes shouldn’t also play that role, especially if they stay as downvotes. That down arrow is inevitably going to be used by a lot of people to express mere disagreement.

      • bluGill@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        I don’t want downvote for disagreement. Learn to debate a point and then leave it. Downvote for disagreement just discourages people from holding forth on complex unpopular positions ,even if they are correct. Of course it is most abused in politics where we can’t objectively give a correct answer, but elsewhere i’ve seen real experts downvoted when they point out the popular narrative doesn’t fit the facts.