Several people in the community have expressed frustration in regards to the fact that any post that fits the community it’s posted to but is slightly out of the normal post type like, for example, being more hardcore rather than softcore, get’s a lot of downvotes by people who simply don’t like that particular post.

We have also had complaints that particular types of posts as a whole get more downvotes even if they are in the appropriate community and are the normal type of post for a community. This especially appears to be happening to male content.

Additionally we are seeing posts with more downvotes than a community has subscribers, meaning people are downvoting content they don’t even want to see in the first place.

We understand some may not like some content of a particular post or community, but downvoting posts discourages these posters who are actually passionate/interested in the topic of the community from posting again. Additionally, when posts are downvoted like that it can bury them in our instance and especially in other instances, preventing them from being viewed by others almost at all.

After some discussion amongst the moderators and admins,because of the reasons above, we’ve decided to disable downvotes at least for the time being.

What do I do if I dislike a post?

  • We recommend those who would normally downvote a post they don’t like just, instead, block the user who created the post, or, if the community is a topic you dislike, block the community. That way, you no longer see those posts, but don’t effect those posts’ visibility to other members of the community and instance.

  • Additionally, you can view your “Subscribed” feed instead of “Local” so that you only see posts from the communities you are subscribed to.

What do I do if a post doesn’t fit the community it’s posted in or is spam?

  • Please report the post, either the mods of the community or an instance admin will remove the post if necessary, as soon as possible. We have admins and mods online almost around the clock, so these types of posts should be removed quickly.

Potential future post filtering on lemmy:

  • In the future it appears that lemmy may implement a tagging system similar to flairs on reddit. This request has piqued the interest of the lemmy devs, so keep an eye out sometime in the (maybe not so near) future for the implementation of that feature.

As @yay@lemmynsfw.com has said in the comments:

Downvotes should be used for posts you don’t like in your area of interest, and not for niche communities you don’t like.

When the RFC mentioned in the post is developed, we will be able to have a more refined home page, this way we can enable downvotes.

But for now, please block users/communities as it supposed to be.

Please put any comments questions and concerns in the comments below, we are of course always open to community thoughts and feedback, and want to work with you to keep this instance an enjoyable and entertaining place to post and browse.

  • ~~Nudermeisters~~@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    What do we do about moderators being spammers? I’m sure this comment will just get deleted, but like, some of the moderators are just blasting out spam across the communities and its obnoxious as fuck. Blocking moderators isn’t my favorite thing to do, even though I currently have. What if they make a community announcement I need to see, in order to maintain a proper understanding of the rules, for instance? Just so there’s no questions, I am very specifically talking about @b9999998@lemmynsfw.com. We’ve already lost one community member due to how they treated her, and how her comments about his improprieties were handled, can we talk about corrective actions? Or is this just a good ol’ boys club?

    Feels sus that this comes pretty directly after they were called out in comments with downvotes on their bullshit, now mod deleted, reply . And who cares this much about fake points anyway? just tell the people who are complaining about the “excessive downvotes” to turn off vote counts in their user settings. why should a few complainers ruin the way the entire instance is operated? absolutely ridiculous.

    I already had to limit my experience to SUBSCRIBED only so that I didn’t have to see said moderators awful bullshit spam taking my actual entire main new page up all the time, before i had them blocked (guess i can go back but its probably just him with another username doing the same now)… dont make this our problem on top, its already barren around here, we need all the forms of interaction available to us to be cohesive. And it’s a core aspect of the fediverse.

    Your ridiculous example of a post getting more downvotes than suscribers, as an admin level moderator, is stunning. Let me explain how this happens since you dont get Lemmy??

    1. User posts {example bad post} to [communityX]
    2. that post gets shown in a WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLES NEW PAGE, even people not subscribed, and even places outside of LemmyNSFW, believe it or not.
    3. Users outside of the subscription list downvote the shit post because they dont like it and its out of place or whatever the reason
    4. User complains? to you? ((alternative step: tell user to turn off votes))
    5. You turn off downvoting for us, which may have zero effect on the users downvoting the content in the first place, in the rest of the federation?
    6. We try our hardest not to go to https://lemmy.world/post/8508017 (etc) and downvote this post anyway.

    What am I missing? Why are you using subscriber count as an arbitrary ceiling? Even if the downvotes are “in-house” its happening on the new page, not people brigading communities or whatever the fuck nonsense you’ve cooked up over there internally. most people dont subscribe to communities they like… I only do it to avoid your homeboy’s spamming and similar users.

    This is starting to feel more like a shitty porn collectors club than a legit part of the federated universe that happens to specialize in porn. And guess what the internet already has plenty of ? yep! porn Collections, you nailed it.

    Not even sure I’m allowed to ask this since the instance rules dont allow us to “lawyer rules”, but nothing in sidebar even attempts to address how you want up and downvotes to be used… maybe start there… You’re removing features for people using them within the defined rules (none).

    Rule Eight) No Rules Lawyering: Admin decisions are final and arguing with them can result in a suspension or banning of your account and removal of your content. (if you feel a community is not being sufficiently moderated or properly following these guidelines, please contact an admin.)

    Please tell me we aren’t talking about this guy

    • lemmyposter212@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      If you have an issue with the mods please do report it we have a public matrix channel, you can report it there, or message an admin directly.

      We continually have discussions in the mod chat about the behavior of mods and what is and isn’t the appropriate behavior of mods. If you have a serious issue with a mod, and it is brought up, we will discuss it.

      • ~~Nudermeisters~~@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        I’m not a matrix user, and do not wish to agree to additional terms of service to make a complaint about a moderator via a social network about the admins of a different social network. Its conflated and dumb. Whats wrong with the messaging here? whats wrong with it being open for users to see?