Alot of subreddits remove the ability to downvote or mask it heavily with text.
I've noticed on todays daily shoot thread, a lot of photos have been downvoted to 0. I understand the up and down voting means nothing but for some people this could hinder someone's confidence to continue with this project. They may take this as a criticism towards their work.

Downvotes have no place in this subreddit. It does nothing but hurt photographers and their incredible efforts.

Well, this sub grew much quicker than I ever expected and with ten times the enthusiasm! To help manage the quick growth we've added /u/soupyhands and /u/myownfunusername to the mod team.

I originally wanted free-floating pictures so that the pictures could be quickly browsed and enjoyed, however as /u/cayal3 pointed out with the number of subscribers the daily posts would flood the page and many deserving photos would be buried.

With that in mind we will be implementing daily, weekly, and monthly threads designated for image posting, please post your daily submissions to these threads. Top Level comments should be direct links to your photo. These threads will begin January 1, 2016 at 8:30am. Discussion, motivation, and other misc. threads will remain as normal.

We are also discussing ideas for weekly and monthly challenges/themes as ideas and motivations but not requirements for the threads, we do not plan on turning into /r/PictureChallenge. We're open to discussion on how to decide on these themes.

We want to keep the momentum of this sub going while providing motivation, support, encouragement, and advice all for the love of taking and sharing photos!

Feel free to message myself or the other mods with any questions, happy shooting!

This sub is for sharing photos taken throughout a 365 day/52 week or however many photos you're taking throughout your challenge. If you're on the 1000th day of your project, welcome! If you're just starting out, welcome!

Please feel free to share your photos, request feedback, discuss the merits and difficulties of your project, or anything related to it!

If you have any resources, groups, or other 365 related links, let me know and I'll add them to the sidebar!

The one most popular struggle when running a 365 project is coming up with an idea for your next photo. So we, at tookapic decided to solve this with tookapic.today

You subscribe and we send you a photo idea every day. Sounds good? Let me know what you guys think.

Since this is a discussion post - feel free to post your photo idea suggestions.

Happy New Year, all! Let's start this off right and get to taking and posting photos!

Please post your daily submissions to this thread. Top Level comments should be direct links to your photo. In this thread you can ask any photo related question that you may have. Anyone may offer advice on any issue. Post away!

Please post your daily submissions to this thread. Top Level comments should be direct links to your photo. In this thread you can ask any photo related question that you may have. Anyone may offer advice on any issue. Post away!

For those of us doing a 52 week challenge, please post your weekly submissions to this thread. Top Level comments should be direct links to your photo. In this thread you can ask any photo related question that you may have. Anyone may offer advice on any issue.

Feel free to post throughout the week as you are able to take your photo. Because January 1st is on a Friday, these threads will repeat each Friday.

Post away!

/u/kcdale99's challenge for this week is "self portrait"

By that, I mean will there be a January 1 submission and people post their Jan 1 photos in there, and then Jan 2, 3 etc?

Rather than having random posts for the same day?

Please post your daily submissions to this thread. Top Level comments should be direct links to your photo. In this thread you can ask any photo related question that you may have. Anyone may offer advice on any issue. Post away!

Please post your daily submissions to this thread. Top Level comments should be direct links to your photo. In this thread you can ask any photo related question that you may have. Anyone may offer advice on any issue. Post away!

Don't forget #redditphotoproject

Please post your daily submissions to this thread. Top Level comments should be direct links to your photo. In this thread you can ask any photo related question that you may have. Anyone may offer advice on any issue. Post away!