I don’t find downvotes useful for that. If no one tells me why they disagree, a negative number isn’t going to tell me that either. Not to mention that the most popular answer is often not equivalent to the correct answer.
But I also have the display of downvotes disabled, because I want to judge other comments without much bias.
I always hated the snowballing of downvotes. As soon as you’re at like -2, people will stop giving you the benefit of the doubt and just hit downvote some more, or even worse: Start harassing you, because you’ve said a thing that others disagreed with.
Admittedly, this was more of a problem on Reddit, haven’t seen that too much on Lemmy yet, but I don’t find seeing the downvotes particularly useful to begin with, so I’d rather not have the bias myself.
I don’t find downvotes useful for that. If no one tells me why they disagree, a negative number isn’t going to tell me that either. Not to mention that the most popular answer is often not equivalent to the correct answer.
But I also have the display of downvotes disabled, because I want to judge other comments without much bias.
I always hated the snowballing of downvotes. As soon as you’re at like
-2, people will stop giving you the benefit of the doubt and just hit downvote some more, or even worse: Start harassing you, because you’ve said a thing that others disagreed with.Admittedly, this was more of a problem on Reddit, haven’t seen that too much on Lemmy yet, but I don’t find seeing the downvotes particularly useful to begin with, so I’d rather not have the bias myself.