People can still express these things via comments and posts? Forums and others formats do perfectly well without down and upvotes. I’ve now been using blåhaj for quite a long time and I can’t say I miss downvotes much.
We do very actively remove bigoted content, but beyond that we’re not really large enough to have many low quality posts locally. Some communities here very much embrace shitposting such as this one, so no moderation required there.
Eh, the level of effort/friction in making a constructive comment vs downvoting isn’t really comparable. Removing the latter option shifts a larger burden onto the moderation team. That said, downvotes can be abused too, so I’m honestly not sure which is better.
People can still express these things via comments and posts? Forums and others formats do perfectly well without down and upvotes. I’ve now been using blåhaj for quite a long time and I can’t say I miss downvotes much.
Comments and posts don’t push poor posts down
As others have mentioned this is why we got rid of downvotes! Our instance is a trans safe space and we often get downvote brigaded by phobes.
I guess the instance relies on more active moderation to clear low quality posts?
We do very actively remove bigoted content, but beyond that we’re not really large enough to have many low quality posts locally. Some communities here very much embrace shitposting such as this one, so no moderation required there.
Eh, the level of effort/friction in making a constructive comment vs downvoting isn’t really comparable. Removing the latter option shifts a larger burden onto the moderation team. That said, downvotes can be abused too, so I’m honestly not sure which is better.