My instance has downvoting enabled, but I’ve learned that some other instances do not. Do the vote totals look different to users on different instances? It seems like some users on instances that don’t allow downvoting are unaware that it’s not the same lemmy-wide. It would be pretty confusing for them to see their vote go down.
does a comment/post really need hundreds of comments saying similar things it also helps to hide spam content and trolls
No, why would you think that?
You remove the downvotes you juat get people more people in the comments with “you’re an idiot” or whatever instead of just a downvote.
It’s not like those kinds of comments are really that nuanced or helpfull either.
I haven’t noticed that so far.
Also, even if that were an issue, please forgive me but I’m not entirely convinced that the problem of people posting comments that are lacking in nuance could be solved with a tool that has no nuance.