I was reading the rules of Beehaw.org and they opted to disable downvotes, and I see other instances doing the same.
The main reason is that often the downvote is used as “I don’t like it” instead of “This is not relevant to this community”; in the latter case, I think the “report” button is the correct action to perform.
What are your thoughts on this?
I see your point, but the mods are there literally to keep the community coherent with its intended scope. If a submission is in topic with the community but no one likes it or agrees with it, it simply remains a 1 and that’s it imho