Happy to help :) I feel like these kind of discussions are important for a platform. One of the times when I appreciate the fact that downvoting is not possible in beehaw.
Yeah I never really understood downvoting on reddit either. Throughout 6 years I’ve only had to touch that button like a handful of times regardless of how badly I disagreed with what someone else said.
You have better self-control than me :) Arguments with trolls in bad faith and trolls in general are ocassion when I’ve downvoted content. Not on disagreements though. Good discussions are how we learn things in my experience.
Yeah. I don’t have the energy to reply or react to trolls. Even in general if I have a difference in opinion, i’ll type almost the entire comment and then realise that I don’t want to have to deal with the hostility that would follow it. Having opinions and difference is in opinions is too rich for reddit. This behaviour carried forward to downvoting too.
You’ve summarised it beautifully. I don’t know how many times I’ve typed out a detailed reply to just delete it at the end because it is too tiring to deal with what might follow. Hopefully things are different here in lemmy or will eventually be.
https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5784
Thanks. There was some good discussion there and highlights why a public modlog is very important to evaluate the health of any Lemmy instance.
Happy to help :) I feel like these kind of discussions are important for a platform. One of the times when I appreciate the fact that downvoting is not possible in beehaw.
Yeah I never really understood downvoting on reddit either. Throughout 6 years I’ve only had to touch that button like a handful of times regardless of how badly I disagreed with what someone else said.
You have better self-control than me :) Arguments with trolls in bad faith and trolls in general are ocassion when I’ve downvoted content. Not on disagreements though. Good discussions are how we learn things in my experience.
Yeah. I don’t have the energy to reply or react to trolls. Even in general if I have a difference in opinion, i’ll type almost the entire comment and then realise that I don’t want to have to deal with the hostility that would follow it. Having opinions and difference is in opinions is too rich for reddit. This behaviour carried forward to downvoting too.
You’ve summarised it beautifully. I don’t know how many times I’ve typed out a detailed reply to just delete it at the end because it is too tiring to deal with what might follow. Hopefully things are different here in lemmy or will eventually be.