- cross-posted to:
- lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/48874
Here are some interesting takes on how Puritanism has harmed lgbtq+ spaces online and the internet in general.
Just found this post and had to share since it rings extremely true, at least with my perception of young furries on twitter, especially when they found out I have a feral 'sona.
Fortunately I deleted twitter.
Reading through this has me thinking… Maybe the downvote button for yiffit should be disabled?
Hear me out on this, on reddit before the bad times, the downvote buttons original intent was to stop posters from straying away from a topic or spreading misinformation.
Nowadays, while the old guard still stuck to the intent of the downvote button, most of the new blood treated it as more of a bullying tool. A way of saying “I don’t agree with you, I don’t like what you are saying, nor do I Iike what you post. But I won’t bother telling you that, So I am going to downvote you.”
It is a suggestion. If you don’t want to change it, that’s fine. Reading through the article made me think of this and our resident downvoter who seems to downvote on topics ( like this one) and images they don’t specifically like.
tbh, imo, it’s not a terrible idea. my only objection would be when downvotes prove useful to mods to be able to see that something didn’t sit well with their community/instance. it can help point out bad actors or open a chance for dialog like “should this be a community/instance rule?”
It’s definitely something I’ve considered but I didn’t want to jump the gun. I do admit that I don’t see the utility of the downvote button… but again, maybe it’s too soon to decide and I don’t want to decide for everyone. Maybe in a month or so we can hold a vote.
If things get bad with downvotes, I’ll disable them though.