• Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
      3·
      3 months ago

      I’m still not very sure about this and I wanted to ask about it here for a long time. I think they are “disabled”, but I think on lemmy, disabling them means that for every 5 downvotes the system shows a downvote. I don’t exactly understand how it works on communities with downvotes disabled.

      Edit: I found this post by Ada about a year ago:

      https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/104422

      Turns out that it (probably) was decided to modify the downvote system so that for every 5 downvotes, 1 downvote appears. I’m still kinda confused tho😅

      • wander1236@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        3 months ago

        As far as I understand it, blahaj has downvotes disabled, but since Lemmy is federated and other instances don’t, they can still downvote.

        • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
          21·
          3 months ago

          So does this mean the downvotes I see on blahaj are exactly the number of downvotes from all the users in instances that allow downvotes which my instance federates with?

          (I wrote it in such a confusing way, but I dont know if I can make it any better😅)

          Edit: could you please downvote this comment from your (not mander.xyz) instance to test if the downvotes federate?

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        1·
        3 months ago

        I think when they are disabled you can still see the downvotes from your own instance but none from other servers. I’m the only user on my instance so at most I was able to see my own downvote.

        • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
          11·
          3 months ago

          Can you see my downvote on your comment? (Give it about a hour or so to federate)

          I will remove it when you’ll reply (or if a day has passed).😅

          Also, can you see any downvotes on this post? (I see 6 so far.)