I agree the original commenter doesn’t deserve to be downvoted. If you disagree then leave a comment. Mass downvoting will build an echo chamber a la reddit
Here’s a little snippet from the documentation of lemmy.ml and lemmy.world.
I understand it as meaning that the downvote is actually there to express a negative opinion about something you don’t like.
Lemmy uses a voting system to sort post listings. On the left side of each post there are up and down arrows, which let you upvote or downvote it. You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them. Or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen. Each post receives a score which is the number of upvotes minus number of downvotes.
I think it would be better put as nonconstructive. It is this exact environment that fascism and other hateful ideologies, like to expand in. Where opinions are suppressed on the merit of, “their bad”, Instead of using the environment as a constructive place to display why that opinion is bad. Propaganda is most effective when all conversation is stopped.
I agree the original commenter doesn’t deserve to be downvoted. If you disagree then leave a comment. Mass downvoting will build an echo chamber a la reddit
Here’s a little snippet from the documentation of lemmy.ml and lemmy.world. I understand it as meaning that the downvote is actually there to express a negative opinion about something you don’t like.
Lemmy uses a voting system to sort post listings. On the left side of each post there are up and down arrows, which let you upvote or downvote it. You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them. Or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen. Each post receives a score which is the number of upvotes minus number of downvotes.
I think it would be better put as nonconstructive. It is this exact environment that fascism and other hateful ideologies, like to expand in. Where opinions are suppressed on the merit of, “their bad”, Instead of using the environment as a constructive place to display why that opinion is bad. Propaganda is most effective when all conversation is stopped.