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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • People often use upvotes/downvotes for things they like or don’t like instead of for relevance, as they’re supposed to be used.

    Consider cow paths / desire paths or the iPhone 4 “you’re holding it wrong” fiasco. In my opinion, rather than battling people / trying to stop them from using things in the way they’ve discovered is natural/efficient, embrace/accommodate/learn from them.

    On a somewhat related note, I also agree with @Cephirux@lemmings.world: “why not create multiple communities that can cater to different individuals with different tastes?” It seem like “solving” the issue of guys posting on /c/gonewild getting downvoted by taking away downvotes is addressing the wrong problem. If a nontrivial portion of that community is signaling that it thinks male nudity deserves a downvote, find/create a welcoming community, or empower the moderators to view the members who are downvoting that content so they can be warned or blocked (if a community’s rules prohibit downvoting on the basis of gender, or whatever).

    Separately, seeing something that has a score of -11 (+2 / -13) signals something different to me than something that has a score of 2 (+2). Taking away downvotes removes that information.