Very well articulated 👍, especially your last point, given the still fragile growing-pains state that LemmyNSFW is currently in

I was for disabling down votes the last goaround wrt this topic, and I'm of the same opinion.

LemmyNSFW hasn't grown much more in the past year and this will just drive away more posters (of which there aren't much left) imho

Additional - I'd prefer that others block me (so they don't have to see what I post) or block/don't subscribe to various communities I mod that they don't want to see as part of their feed, rather than have them downvote individual top level posts.

Enabling downvotes wrt comments, I'm okay with...

You win for effort and creativity 😍👍

Read through the previous announcement and discussions.
There's no need to rehash here these same points already made...

Voted in poll.

I think only allowing community members to vote is a reasonable solution. This is similar to political parties and having primaries, so it's not a radical idea.

If one is not invested in a community and not contributing (in whatever ways), just stay quiet and observe on the sidelines.

If one is invested, then by all means take the time to subscribe and truly help build a community with your engagement (even if just by silent voting).

I'm confident there will be some known trolls and haters who simply like to downvote for the fun of it and they will spitefully subscribe to every imaginable community to demonstrate their "right to downvote". 😂 Bless them...

But, I did want to vocalise my support as people are more likely to speak up about things to complain which can shift the perspective.

Thank you. You are totally right with your observation.

I'm happy to continue posting and helping grow communities. 😊

Just highlighting a rule/advice I have on sidebar of !adorableporn@lemmynsfw.com (and applicable at any of other communities I mod)

Please don’t engage with Trolls and those being disrespectful to community/members. Report such to mods for ban action. Zero Tolerance.

The one side benefit of disabling downvotes is that this minority of trolls and haters have to be more overt in public view via their comments, and responsible members can help by reporting such to admins for instance-wide bans.

Hi Annabelle, Wrt negative or harassing comments, you can report them for actioning by mods/admins. I am quick to ban trolls and toxic folks who don't add value to communities, and I believe most mods would agree with me and do the same.

This is a temporary hammer solution, until we can get dev resources and attention to implement some "simple elegant" solution that quite a few others have also expressed (which begs the question, why wasn't it done then in the first place, but that's a totally different topic), and which should take your very valid use cases into account.

Please hang in there for now.

She knows she's so sexy and cute. Love that confidence

Bravo 👍😍