There are issues that have been on my mind for a few days, and I wanted to talk about them with you.
Downvotes
As you may notice, downvotes have been completely off for the last few days. I did this because I couldn’t resist the pressure of some friends :/ I still don’t know what to do about this. The majority of members probably want it to be completely open. As mods, posters and admins; some think it should be closed, some think it should be restricted (I guess).
I guess there is no solution that makes everyone happy. I realized I don’t have admin skills in stressful situations, I’m a fucking stupid lol :D I miss @gabe so much.
lemmyposter212 suggested “fuzzy votes” or something that can work for us too. I think I’ll just ghost this issue for a while.
Donations
As you know, all our donation accounts have been closed. Since it was my first time opening a site in the NSFW area, I had no experience. I reviewed some adult donation sites but most of them were shady. Honestly I couldn’t trust them.
There are only coins now. But I guess most people don’t want to deal with coins. It is because I didn’t get any donations about 4 months now :D Those sent from Github Sponsor or Patreon were also returned to donators as well. I received $200-ish donations so far.
We are currently the 2nd largest instance in Lemmy. After lemmy.world, we’re bigger than lemmy.ml and lemm.ee! I don’t think it will work this way anymore. On an annual basis, I need to spend a month’s salary for Lemmy NSFW.
Does anyone have an idea to solve this problem?
Excuse my (possible) naitivety; but where are specific subgroups within this server? So can’t folks post specific content to those subgroups?
If you’re a dude posting your dick, post it to “dicks@lemmynsfw”
Or if you are posting your pussy, same thing, put it on “pussy@lemmynsfw”
It seems to me that if people are doing that, then when people subscribe to a subgroups, they will end up seeing what they want to see.
Or heck, create a subgroup “dicks&pussy@lemmynsfw”
Just trying to think about how to create a situation where upvotes / down votes are less critical to users.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned subscribestar.adult as an option for donations similar to patreon
The most common payment providers for NSFW sites is Epoch or CCbill I know some fairly small sites that use them and have mostly no issues with them. However I have heard their customer service isn’t the best. Unfortunately payment in the NSFW field is in need of a shake up.
They want us to be a for-profit organization and not a donation driven site.
I’m against disabling downvotes but I’m not that bothered by it.
I did come here to point out that the alternate UI links at the top of the page don’t work.
On the topic of downvotes. I think this should be something that can be decided community by community. I don’t like the blanket ban across all. It makes more sense in some communities than others.
