I saw that setting and switched it off, and now reading through others’ and my own comments is like walking on clouds. It’s great!
Should this be the default and make everyone’s lives here a tiny bit better?
I don’t see how it would be better.
You don’t have to see the scores of peoples’ comments. It’s awesome! But perhaps you don’t derive anxiety from those numbers, lucky you if so.
I guess I’m looking for verification if I’m in the majority or minority here.
I think it adds rather important context and allows you to “read the room” so to speak.
Look at their profile, particularly at their down voted comments and posts it, it explains why op wants this
If you’re looking for validation, then probably you want numbers on anyway!
(I leave them on, but don’t seek validation. I’m just around to talk and/or fight.)
Yeah, I think I might turn it off as well, it makes things a bit like a shouting match.
Yeah, I mean this might my personal deficiency that other people don’t have… but if I see a comment I disagree with and then I see that it has been upmodded heavily, I get a greatly increased urgency to shit on that comment to make people see how wrong it is. Totally toxic and encouraged by the scoring system.
For what it’s worth, the scores are rarely accurate, anyway, as not all instances sync scores with 100% accuracy, if they even sync them at all. Some instances don’t allow or even calculate downvotes. Your score can vary wildly from instance to instance.
It’s actually kinda funny to open up your comments in multiple instances to see what your scores are across communities. I’ve noticed that I’ll get heavily downvoted on some instances, but will see highly positive scores on the same comment from my “home” instance.
I’d have to say no. That allows for hate speech, harassment, and general trolling to hold equal footing with otherwise civil conversation.
Good moderators on your instance should solve that, not just leave it up to the votes.
You can’t always trust that the mods will - or even can - take any action, though. Especially due to the federated nature of things.
For instance, you and I are both commenting from different instances, on a post made on a third instance, by a user from a fourth instance. Who has power over who in this situation? Between you, me, and OP, none of us “belong” to the instance this thread is in. Who are the three of us supposed to be trusting to keep this place clean of that sort of content?
One could argue that that’s just the inherent risk you take in using federated platforms, but I don’t think that’s too widely understood among the user base at large just yet. A simple user-maintained scoring system, even as rudimentary as Lemmy’s implementation currently is, does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to filtering the good content from the bad.
The report button should route it to the post instance moderators. If the moderators on an instance suck then it’s time to defederate from them. No reason to keep in contact with bigots.
I don’t see that setting on my end. I don’t think I’d want it off, but if having a switch option makes life better for some people I don’t see a problem with it
It’s a number that didn’t mean anything.
