Waking up every day and drinking that Hatorade.

If you don’t like anything on the the platform, why stick around?

  • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
    31·
    10 hours ago

    My instance of choice decided to unilaterally and without any warning whatsoever disable downvotes. Just to “try it out”.

    I’m still pissed about it to this day.

    I mean that google removes any kind of downvotes is one stupid thing, but that people think this makes content “better” is crazy to me.

    Now I do understand that in small communities the weight of a super negative account can be quite an issue… But is removing completely any negative feedback the solution ? Really, it’s all we got ?

    Also the simple fact that a lot of this community is from Reddit, IMO it’s not okay to disable a feature like that without even voting on it.

    So if you think disabling negative feedback fixes an issue, you have the burden to prove or at least explain the reasoning.

    I do think it didn’t make YouTube any less of a cesspool to disable downvotes on it…

    Edit : Also while votes are not supposed to replace moderation, they certainly help limiting the reach of spammers. Like if the mods are asleep at least the community can bury the post in the meantime. But no, they just disabled downvotes and made a post about the change the same day. Wtf.