CombedSpaghetti

Thanks for being open and honest with the community. I'll admit I'm disappointed by the decision. But you did the right thing by communicating and letting the community help shape the decision.

Shoot you found the flaw in my system.

Every downvote on pro-downvote comments should count as a vote for re-enabling. Clearly they're okay with downvotes, at least when it suits them haha

I hope those who are downvoting comments because they don't want downvotes re-enabled realize the irony.

I don't care about winning against you or getting you to do anything, your opinions and actions after today are your own.

Suppressing down votes is something I disagree with, and I'm voicing those concerns.

You don't need viewers yet you're up in arms about the -1 vote button coming back?

Posters need viewers and vise versa. One cannot function without the other. So no I reject your appeal to authority fallacy.

Felt like the momentum of the instance picked up enough that it was self sustaining.

Up to you.

I posted when this instance first started and there was nearly nothing. So yeah I would and did. I didnt complain about the down votes and wasnt demanding up votes either.

I'm entitled to nothing, posts or votes. You are entitled to nothing as well.

Lol I'm sorry but you're are entitled to nothing when posting. If people like it, great you get upvotes. No one is entitled to those votes though. If you were, then they'd be meaningless (or at least more meaningless haha)

Id say enable it. There is no complex algorithm that promotes content based on up and down votes like with sites like YouTube. If people want niche stuff that performs poorly on All > Top, they can see it on the niche sub for that content in their subscriptions or directly on the sub page. Having a low score doesnt delete posts.