Recently, many of our anti-Zionists posts have been downvoted to oblivion by liberals. As hexberians realized a while back, downvotes only help liberals since they are more numerous and they don’t need to engage in discourse. I am proposing to just get rid of downvotes and instead engage in discourse on content that we disagree on.
I’ve seen this used as an argument both for and against downvotes. On the pro side, it will encourage people to post and actually explain what they find problematic. On the anti side, it gets rid of what someone else in this thread called the right to disagreement without elaboration. Sometimes you just want to be able to say someone’s wrong without needing to humor them with a response.
With this dimension of the problem at least, neither choice is better in all situations, and the correct choice will vary between instance userbases.
I completely agree every instance should be tailored to the needs of their individual community.
It was not my intention to weigh in on the pros vs. cons of downvotes, I checked out the thread to see what others thought of a ‘key Hexbear feature’; the main reason I made the post was to push back against what I felt was an unfair criticism of Hexbear’s content.
Kinda got a little meta as I was forming it in my mind and I ran with it.