i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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    Comments weren’t originally hidden due to downvotes on Reddit either… That’s a relatively recent change and it sucks.

    I don’t really take issue with downvotes being used as a disagree button as a general rule but I can also see room to improve the system someho, too.

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      As long as they never add any “punishment” for being downvotes then I guess it doesn’t matter. On Reddit downvotes we’re used to reinforce the echo chamber and to essentially silence differing opinions.

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      Wait, posts showed both upvote and downvote rates at one point and they didn’t collapse by default if they got too many downvotes until recently?

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        They never showed both total up and downvotes individually like some Lemmy clients do… Only the sum of the two.

        But, they didn’t used to collapse regardless of the sum going negative.