I checked the community rules, just to be sure, and there is no rule against male posts. But every time a man posts an image, it is immediately downvoted.
I understand that some people might not be interested in seeing that, (I’m more of a boobs guy myself) but there are gender tags on every post. It shouldn’t be a surprise when you click on a post with an [M] in the title and see a cock n balls.
Feel free to avoid the penises if you aren’t interested, but why discourage the guys who are willing to share with people who are interested in seeing that?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something but I’m seeing negative scores and I don’t see how that could happen if downvotes weren’t subtracting from that.
At this very moment I see six down votes and 3 ups on this post.
LemmyNSFW disabled down votes, the down votes that we see are because our instances still allow down votes on posts. If you viewed the post on LemmyNSFW, you would only see the up votes.
There has been a lot of discussion about allowing down votes on LemmyNSFW.
Thanks for the clarification. I switched from Reddit over 2 years ago, and I still don’t completely understand all the intricacies of Federation.
I like to think the Fediverse is the multiverse version of X (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram. etc) Each instance is it’s own universe and we can dimension hop to other universes to see what is going on.
Downvotes aren’t enabled or federated on Lemmynsfw and don’t affect the total score. The only reason you see them is because you’re coming to the instance from an external instance. Because posts are proxied locally you will see downvotes that have been done locally only by other World users because they are enabled on your home instance, but that’s all. The actual downvotes don’t get sent to us on Lemmynsfw and to other instances by extension.
Thanks for the information! I didn’t understand how that worked.
Yup! It’s just because Lemmy.World is a large instance that it seems so impactful for you. Other instances see different downvotes totals.