Downvotes / Hiding Survey

Joey
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Hello everyone,
 
As some of you may already know, early last week we removed the ability to downvote images on the site, instead replacing it with a “hide image” functionality instead. This was a result of about two years of on-and-off discussions among the site’s staff, over concerns that downvotes were not being used in the way they were initially intended to be used, and in a number of cases, downright abused. However, I will admit that this change was rolled out kinda suddenly without any warning or request for community input, which is not our normal procedure for rolling out major changes to the site. In turn, this resulted in a lot of negative feedback, so we rolled back the changes.
 
TL;DR: We messed up, we’re sorry
 
Moving forward, however, we have noticed that downvote abuse is a recurring problem on this site, and concerns have been raised by a number of artists and community members to this extent. We want to implement changes to discourage/prevent abusing downvoting, and the ability to hide images has been brought up a number of times. There are a number of ways these changes can be implemented though, and I think we all will very much like to avoid a repeat of last week. Therefore, we are asking for your feedback on how downvoting, image hiding, and image scores should be handled moving forward. To make this easy to keep track of, we have created an anonymous survey, which you may click here to take
 
If you have any other thoughts on this matter, please feel free to post a comment to that extent. However, I ask that you please try to keep the comments civil and on topic. We already know the changes last week were overly unpopular, after all.
 
Thanks!
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@Joey  
“downvote abuse”…. what the heck is “downvote abuse”? If somebody doesn’t like something they downvote it. Why is that a problem?
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I have a question about what this is saying:  
Should downvoting images that a user possesses a hide or spoiler filter for (beyond rating tags) be restricted?
 
Is this asking if the user’s current filter affects the image being downvoted, or if the user has a filter that hides/spoilers the image in general? It’s an important distinction and one that could change my answer.
 
EDIT According to mods in IRC, this question is talking about the active filter.
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Adding the hide button is fine. But why have a scoring system at all if you can’t vote down? A hugbox system is worthless.
Joey
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@Shirani  
People generally just downvoting everything under a certain tag or by a certain artist, irregardless of quality or content. Downvoting’s meant to say “I don’t like this image in particular”, but if you don’t like a specific theme or artist, you should be filtering instead.
Joey
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A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
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Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!

PM me your cute OCs
@WingbeatPony  
Basically, if a user’s filter is already hiding an image, should they be allowed to downvote it or not, since they obviously have a bias against the image’s artist/theme/content/character/etc.
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Hopefully we can reach a compromise. I wouldn’t mind giving the users an option to enable and disable down vote displays. And to have Hide as a separate opton would be a win for those who support downvotes, and a win for those who support the hide feature.
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Just hoping downvotes remain as they are with the added hide button. Looking like the most likely possibility.
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