Exactly this yes

Unfortunately no

I enabled it to see if the brigading of down votes had stopped, and because off topic posts have been made to communities but were making it higher up in communities because down votes were not enabled, but that is only really a side reason.

I think downvotes have their place in forums like reddit and lemmy, when not abused. If I see reports of abuse again, they'll be disabled.

Yeah, I've banned a few accounts that seem pretty similar here

I love that he's experimenting with styles

These communities mods have reached out to me to say they would like some help modding:

• !afrobull@lemmynsfw.com
• !luckypierre@lemmynsfw.com

The reason we need mods is because we have a lot of users and only a few power mods who manage all our communities. They can't post and manage that many subs single handedly. That and we have mods who just made a bunch of communities that are still active and they left for one reason or another

Good idea, I can write up a list and add it, it's late here so I'll do that tomorrow

!torpedotits@lemmynsfw.com 😎👉👉

I use reddit for porn still. But I also use this, the communities are slowly growing, and we admins are trying to get user engagement up and toxicity down.

We've already brought back downvotes, just limiting them to communities you've been subscribed to for a week.

Additionally the admins here are here "in the trenches" so to speak wayyy more than reddit admins. If you report a spambot or someone who's being incredibly toxic the response will be much quicker.

We also are listening to what our users want, and we do our best to align what we do with what they want, while still being effective admins, like with the upvote changes.

Instead of fully switching to one or the other, I recommend a hybrid approach, and also, if anyone here posts on reddit, maybe post the same post here too, or instead. That way we can get even more people posting.

All in all, sustainable organic growth takes time. And we are literally a decade behind reddit in age, so it makes sense to not fully commit to lemmynsfw yet.

We're not as user or feature rich as reddit, but the lemmy devs are working hard, and we even have devs working on changes for our particular instance. Lemmy and lemmynsfw are getting better and more users day by day. It'll just take some time.

I very much agree with your comment, we did this as not a permanent solution, we did this as a bandaid for an issue with how lemmy works as a whole, and we plan to adjust accordingly when there are more options to fix the issue.

Those are the reasons I presented, maybe I didn't word them well. As far as a community poll, well, there have been a few posts about it in different communities, including the one you linked, and discussion amongst mods for weeks. The majority of feedback from the community we've seen is that they are in favor of it.

Edit: I've updated the post to make it more clear.