The stated reason is spam. We’ve been getting a lot of that recently, so I get admins are looking for a way to deal with it. But the spam is being upvoted, so I don’t think it’s working.

I worry that regular posters will get discouraged and post less. A few have already mentioned that.

A poll isn’t a good way to decide this. Regular posters suffer from downvotes more than others, and they drive our community. Their opinion should count for more.

Currently three regular posters have complained about it:

• Radovic
• Cleverhans
• LVL3_Eroticism.

It’s shitty. I appreciate your posts. Here’s hoping OP turns off downvotes and we can go back to the way we were.

I see a handful that have upvotes.

Currently downvotes are enabled on a trial basis, this was done by me to see if they can be enabled to prevent spam

There’s a bunch of spam from a user called “BravoIsabella” that has positive upvotes, and a grumpy post from one of the AI communities saying “mystery downvoter show yourself”.

Edit: we have three regular posters (Radovic, LVL3_Eroticism, and Cleverhans) saying they don’t like the decision and they may stop posting. There’s at least one instance of upvoted spam.

There are two instances of spam accounts getting upvotes

• https://lemmynsfw.com/u/AmberXXX
• https://lemmynsfw.com/post/18036648

Maybe? I dunno. Turning off downvotes seems like a pretty simple solution. Trying to come up with complex ways to make it hurt just the right amount doesn’t seem like it’ll work in all cases.

We can’t afford to shit on the few posters we have.

Radovic is prolific - they post a tonne of content. If they are saying they don’t like the change, listen.

This is the important part:

Especially bad for gonewild posts where people’s self image gets involved.

We don’t need a “go away, you’re ugly” button. That’s what blocking is for.

the biggest problem on this platform right now is lack of content. downvotes, or any tool for creating explicit negative social interaction or feedback can make a community more hostile and less inviting.

Exactly this. We don’t have enough content to give users the tools to discourage posting.

No downvotes. This is a porn instance. Users will downvote OC that isn’t classically attractive, gay content, etc. I’ll do that because I’m a jerk. But it discourages what few posts we get.

Spammers should be banned and or users should block.

It’s not just quantity, it’s qualitity.

Tessa Fowler

well that’s unexpectedly arousing

Need to update the title, I count three Fs

Left: Ana

Spooky

Sophie Howard

https://lemmynsfw.com/post/16811853 seals the deal

A side angle showing your tits would be fantastic

Right