For some reason posts on our instance have recently gotten more downvotes from outside instances than usual and many posts look like this:

I personally don’t like the idea of disabling downvotes but if the feature is mostly going to be used by outside users because crypto is “le bad” we might as well turn it off.

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I don’t think it’s a good idea to disable them. I don’t want to live in an echo chamber or silence critics. Facing criticism will strengthen worthwhile ideas.

And it would rob the actual users of the instance of the ability to downvote content we don’t approve of legitimately.

But I do like that you’ve been making the voting and vote bombing transparent.

Is there a script or another way to make the voting parties visible to all users rather than just the admin? Or make it so a flood coming from external sources would be visible or filtered in some way?

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It wouldn’t silence actual critics that have something to say because they would actually leave a comment… down voting is just away for trolls to shit on things without explanation

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Is there a script or another way to make the voting parties visible to all users rather than just the admin?

This is how it works on kbin, so it’s definitely possible.

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do not desactivate downvote.

Should i vote negatively on this post?, to indicate that i want you to continue active the negative votes? 🤔

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Leave them on. It will be a good indicator of sentiment change once the majority of people realize Monero is their friend and will start to upvote anything Monero related. 😉

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Just keep posting these images whenever you feel like it. It will have a chilling effect.

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It’s a bad idea when any community that shares ideas does it.

Porn? Fine, whatever. But people need to be able to show when an idea is dangerously wrong.

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We are a crypto bubble within a tankie bubble. I think it’s fair to consider discarding tankie opinions, especially if they are so over-represented that they completely drown out people on their own home instance.

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