Downvote are an important method for controlling misinformation. We do need better info in side bars informing users what the button is for and what it is not for

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Its just one useful tool

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Mods should be banning people who downvote content that is well-cited and high effort

I haven’t even seen an instance with a sidebar that explains what the downvote button is for.

It has gotten much worse in the past year, but I blame the instance admins and mods for not even trying to educate their users

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Yes they can. The vote will not show up logged in from your instance but it will show up on the instance the user votes from.

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That’s the user downvoting the copy of the post on their own instance. If OP doesn’t have downvotes then those votes won’t federate.

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