It's for content that you don't want to see. The reason is your business. I think you're confusing the etiquette rule that downvotes are not for opinions you disagree with, because we want people to be able to discuss different viewpoints without the hivemind casting them into the ether.

If there's content you don't like it is perfectly valid to downvote.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, you practically asked for the downvotes. (Also, if that is truely the intent, then they've made some critical errors in UX design)

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Up and down buttons started off as "like" and "dislike" buttons. That is what it's always meant, and is likely to continue being how most people use them

[–] MonsieurHedge@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alright, hot take: This isn't the case, especially on Lemmy/kbin. Since upvotes/downvotes don't influence sorting, and scores aren't totaled into a single number, there's not really any downside to downvoting someone for just being a shitty opinion or something. If anything, it's actively informative that this-many-people thought this guy was dumb, but _this* many people thought it was good.

[–] roon@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, so it's not supposed to be totalled?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some clients show a total next to the amount of up and downvotes.

[–] roon@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I use Voyager that shows the total

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jokes on you my instance turned off downvotes

[–] roon@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why's this being downvoted? It was probably a joke 🤔

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even I don't know what I meant. I agree with the post but my instance did also disable downvotes

[–] roon@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Damn