Recently, many of our anti-Zionists posts have been downvoted to oblivion by liberals. As hexberians realized a while back, downvotes only help liberals since they are more numerous and they don’t need to engage in discourse. I am proposing to just get rid of downvotes and instead engage in discourse on content that we disagree on.
Lemmygrad doesn't have the history of trans users being targeted with mass downvotes like Hexbear did. We've had the occasional mass downvote brigade targeting specific comms, but they seldom last more than a few days maxed.
Another reason I've heard brought up is that it will make libs show their ass instead of hide anonymously. This encouragement to post is a good fit for Hexbear's post from the hip culture, but not necessarily Lemmygrad's.
wrong, i have definitely noticed that issue
I haven't? Like trans specific?
Yeah,or at least caught up in a wave of downvotes. If I knew this was going to be a thing that was going to be debated I would have taken notes like on hexbear tbh. Low-key wouldn't be surprised if hexbears idiots left for lemmygrad, a lot of these arguments are very familiar
I can agree with viewing downvotes and banning those who seem to be lurking to harass trans users.
That's a reactive style of handling harassment. It is better to hedge it off before it can happen