Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.
I believe there is precedent for that. I’ve seen people from HexBear say that because their instance doesn’t have down votes they leave comments to criticize people. I get the appeal of wanting people to justify downvotes but this is a casual internet forum. Nobody is going to do that every single time. I’m more concerned it will lead to more simple negative comments like “this is stupid”.
i think that will end up pushing discourse on your site towards negativity
I believe there is precedent for that. I’ve seen people from HexBear say that because their instance doesn’t have down votes they leave comments to criticize people. I get the appeal of wanting people to justify downvotes but this is a casual internet forum. Nobody is going to do that every single time. I’m more concerned it will lead to more simple negative comments like “this is stupid”.