The one and only Hoid Amaram.
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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I respectfully disagree. Downvotes add a way of gauging the percent of people who support/don’t support a comment. Let’s say I’m asking for advice about which product to buy. With an upvotes-only system the upvote count is biased towards the earliest comment, whereas with an up/down vote system, the ratio helps you detect comments with heavy bias or blatantly wrong facts. So an upvote/downvote system makes it easier to tell the credibility of a comment, basically allowing you to indirectly gauge the opinion of the community rather than the one person who commented.




  • I’m not using beehaw and probably never will. I don’t want to be in a “safe space” as they put it. That said, I totally understand that some people want that sort of community, it’s their decision, and thanks to federation anyone who disagrees can just leave. If you’re complaining about them defederating from you - you’re probably part of the reason they did.

    That said, it would be really helpful to have some sort of icon next to posts/comments that are defederated from your instance, just so you don’t waste your time responding to them when they can’t see it.