Right now, downvotes (reduces) don’t federate to (and from?) Kbin instances. This lack of federation makes the downvote counter really inaccurate—a comment that looks like it’s +10 might be -15 when you look at it from lemmy.world.

This leaves me with a few questions:

  • Is downvote federation going to be implemented?
  • If so, is it a priority or something that’ll happen much further down the line?
  • If not, will downvoting be removed?
  • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    I completely agree with you, but as long as there’s have a down arrow button, there are going to be a lot of people who use it for disagreement — especially when the up arrow button is used for agreement. To my knowledge, it’s not as much of a thing among kbin.social users (likely since votes are public), but it’s definitely there, and I imagine poor downvote use will only become more prominent as the instance grows. Thus, it’d be really bad for some people to use and interpret downvotes as a pseudo-report button, as not everyone will use it that way.

    EDIT: Typo fix.