I'm still not very sure about this and I wanted to ask about it here for a long time. I think they are "disabled", but I think on lemmy, disabling them means that for every 5 downvotes the system shows a downvote. I don't exactly understand how it works on communities with downvotes disabled.

Edit: I found this post by Ada about a year ago:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/104422

Turns out that it (probably) was decided to modify the downvote system so that for every 5 downvotes, 1 downvote appears. I'm still kinda confused tho😅

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think when they are disabled you can still see the downvotes from your own instance but none from other servers. I'm the only user on my instance so at most I was able to see my own downvote.

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you see my downvote on your comment? (Give it about a hour or so to federate)

I will remove it when you'll reply (or if a day has passed).😅

Also, can you see any downvotes on this post? (I see 6 so far.)

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, I can see them all.

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