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Oh lawd he climbin

Only children stand to wipe.

You don't get it. They will just force VPNs to black list sites. Business users will happily do it because they don't care about porn anyway. Any VPN which doesn't enforce UK laws will be blocked at the ISP level.

Public votes are the biggest problem on Lemmy, and it should be a development priority to make them properly anonymous.

They are conservative because they are stupid

It's ugly and trashy

It can annihilate any kind of police

There will always be content you don't want to see on the fediverse. For all you know your "ragebait" is another person's valued content and they feel the same way about you down voting it without engagement as you feel about others voting in your community. The best option is to ignore it or block it at an individual level, not rely on a system which seemingly exists on the razor's edge of perception over what constitutes a "valid" vs "invalid" down vote.

Well the whole thread is about steering the development meta, right? My entire point is that people get really worked up about down votes, and down votes seem to be a big point of contention over a bunch of different issues, so let's advocate for a different approach.

Ragebait will trend either way. If you don't want to engage with it in other communities then ignore it. If it doesn't belong in your community then remove it.

I'm not saying disable down votes. I'm saying make them placebos. Let people "do an engagement" or whatever to give them a sense of pride and accomplishment, but just eliminate them from the actual engagement calculation. There are plenty of other metrics for ranking posts.

Right, so we are going to twist ourselves in circles and allow/enable censorship just for using the site, over a single mechanic which doesn't need to impact anything in the first place? Am I taking crazy pills here? This is such a dumb issue with an easy and obvious solution.

"It's really annoying how this door shocks me every time I use it. I could just disconnect the power source, but whining about it is easier."