What's the point of having downvotes?
What's the point of having downvotes?
If this instance was all about math and someone claims that 1+1 = 11, then I can see how being able to downvote them would be a useful feature. But for people posting nudes and porn? I don't really see the point.
To discourage off-topic posts, clickbait titles, spam image hosts, general low quality content, etc. The type of thing which isn't worth trying to report and might not be against specific rules, but still we want less of it.
Probably true, here you’d either upvote if you like it or ignore. But I would keep it as a general principle, just to avoid creating specific rules for this instance.
Problem is some people don't ignore it, they downvote it.
Found a discussion in lemmy.world on this topic (not started by me).