Downvotes basically allows for dogpiling and allows stupid people to circlejerk. Also, i am perfectly ok with getting downvotes but others are not. These weak boned sensitive weenies delete their comments the first sign that people disagree so thats why you see everyone agreeing on everything. This is compounded with the fact that the fediverse is a series of bubbles so, for instance, i will immediately know I will disagree with someone if they have a lemmigrad or hexbear in their name.
Downvotes basically allows for dogpiling and allows stupid people to circlejerk
Upvotes can be used to dogpile misinformation and also to circle jerk. I've always felt this argument against down votes is weak, at best. Might as well get rid of voting entirely.
If they delete their comment because it got down voted, it wasn't worth having their opinion on pemmy to begin with. I love when the trash takes itself out.
Downvotes help to mitigate disinformation, ads, etc. It's a big reason why old reddit posts are such a good resource for so many topics. When any random idiot can get their garbage upvoted at the same rate as an actually useful comment, you end up with Facebook or those copy paste/AI articles at the top of Google searches.
🔥Hot take - I think unless the post being disagreed with is some kind of troll or spam post, the op or ocer might appreciate a discussion around it.
People usually disagree because they view something from a different perspective, and most times that perspective could be a valuable thing to share IMO
I am not a fan of this idea, but there are instances with no down vote button. If you prefer it no down vote button, it isn't too hard to find those instances.
There are lemmy instances where downvotes are disabled. It also affects the sorting 'algorithm' too IIRC, so browsing on a no-downvote instance vs the opposite can yield quite a different looking feed.
It also allows you to look at content from a different perspective, rather than passing by something that's been bonked with tons of downvotes.
Active moderation is pretty key though where there isn't the possibility to downvote, mainly because off topic/spam content can't be downvoted and won't disappear from feeds unless deleted by a mod.
Lemmy mods are generally really proactive with removing spam/offtopic stuff IMO, so I'd say to give it a shot if you're interested. A lot of no-downvote instances aren't federated with lemmy.world though, and my current one has closed signups so it might be tricky.