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Do you want downvotes? (POLL) by bobbiguy2122 in c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Like I said I understand what you're saying, my answer is it's not always as simple as doing something that makes one group of people happy, I have to weigh the options, which is why I made this post.

Also, I don't get paid to do this, they crypto money goes 100% to paying for hosting the site to my knowledge. All the admins have day jobs.

Do you want downvotes? (POLL) by bobbiguy2122 in c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 week ago

I have to disagree with that one, gonewild/oc posts get the most upvotes on average

Do you want downvotes? (POLL) by bobbiguy2122 in c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 week ago

Downvotes can be a useful tool to shape a community, the issue comes in when several people start downvoting communities they don't even participate in. Which is one of the main issues brought up here.

It may seem very clear to you that "no one" wants downvotes, but as an admin I get complaints for basically every decision made on this site, so what is the "right" choice is sometimes hard to determine. I've been getting complaints about downvotes being disabled for awhile now, so it wasn't clear to me. Even now, the opinion is still very split. Which is why I enabled them quietly to see if it would cause any issues. It did, so I made this post to see if people think the issues created by downvotes outweigh the benefits, and what peoples' other opinions about them are.

This is my opinion based on what I've read and the results of the poll: I think at a later time when lemmynsfw is larger, downvotes may be viable, especially if lemmy implements a custom home feed so that not everyone sees the same posts. This would help mitigate the issue of people not in communities downvoting posts. But as it stands, I'm leaning towards disabling them again. Frequent posters, which are kind of needed for this site to survive, don't seem to like them, and the poll is split almost 50/50. I have to try to balance enjoyability of posting and enjoyability of consuming content on the site, and it just seems like downvotes really hurts posters and only marginally helps consumers.

I'm leaving the poll up for a few more days and am going to continue to read the comments, but, if nothing changes, that's probably what's going to happen.

Can you define in one word what this video generates for you? [OC] (F) by bobbiguy2122 in c/gonewild@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 week ago

rudeness will not be tolerated

We are looking for new site admins! by bobbiguy2122 in c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can still apply, we could use help with server administration! Just put that you're majority interested in the administration part in the additional comments field

(edit: rule updated please read!) New Sitewide Rule about Spamming by bobbiguy2122 in c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 4 months ago

yep, just added that to the rules

How to post an album? by bobbiguy2122 in c/aigen@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 8 months ago

You have to upload an album on another site and link it, albums aren't supported yet on lemmy

We are looking for moderators for our communities! by bobbiguy2122 in c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is an incomplete list of communities that have inactive mods, inactive top mods, or need new top mods for other reasons, none or only some of their mods will be removed if you are appointed top mod, and some communities here still may need approval from the top mod or a mod before the transfer happens. If you get one of these, you'd be expected to moderate actively, and also it would be appreciated if you posted to the community if that's possible

Where do you think this instance is going and where would you like it to go? by bobbiguy2122 in c/asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I would recommend uploading to carbox or redgifs and pasting the link into the post, even on the subs on reddit mod that's what I tell people. The site image hosting solutions on both lemmy and reddit aren't great.

I personally like catbox because you don't have to make an account.

Additionally, growth takes time, some of the kinks with the platform will be slowly worked out, and more people will come, our usersbase since the initial dropoff of users has slowly being going up for the most part.

About a decade ago, Reddit was also a site you checked every week or so. I think our growth is already faster than those old days of Reddit, and it may take a year or two for things like better more users, better mod tools, better post algorithms, and more stability in apps to show up, but for a social media network that isn't for profit, lemmy us doing very well and will continue to get better and better and thrive more and more

Where do you think this instance is going and where would you like it to go? by bobbiguy2122 in c/asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We saw a decrease in users when there were mass downvotes, we changed how downvotes worked and since then we've seen and increase in activity.

We're talking about implementing automod features, not sure how soon that'll happen, but it will definitely happen.

Another thing that disincentives some people is the lack of filtering of rude comments, if a comment is rude or downvoted on reddit it is automatically hidden, so maybe that is something we can look into for when we implement automod

Just know that we're not just sitting on our laurels doing nothing, the mods and admins are constantly talking about how to improve this community

An update on our community regarding downvotes by bobbiguy2122 in c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

Sound like you need to enable nsfw posts in your app or in lemmy settings

[M][1972] Burt Reynolds - Cosmopolitan centerfold by bobbiguy2122 in c/retro@lemmynsfw.com

[-] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

He looks like Pedro Pascal