Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes?
teft@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Downvotes don’t matter. They mean nothing. A downvote only hurts your pride. Ignore them and move on. Asking about them and trying to figure out why people downvote is a path to madness.
Kanye fan switches to lemmy sees posts downvoted to oblivion realizes he is not welcome, goes back to reddit.
Besides it affects sorting quality posts within the community. Not a problem currently since there’s not much activity on there now but still.
If it’s a kanye fan who cares? They can get bent. For everyone else it doesn’t matter. Downvotes are at most a few votes out of 50-100 or more. It’s like getting mad at a party because 99 people loved the party but one guy hated the color of the cake and wrote you a letter about it.
If it’s a kanye fan who cares? They can get bent.
You are the type of people for who I made this post. Just block it and move on. It is perfectly understandable that you do not like the things kanye has said, I don’t either. But I still like his music. I know it sounds cliche or cringe, but Kanye’s music was the only thing that I enjoyed during my worst times.
No, i block kanye subs and other subs that i don’t agree with or dislike the content. I just am sick and tired of every week someone complaining about downvotes.
Do that for enough groups, suddenly you have a much smaller community, and suddenly you’re basically just a new hexbear. You need a critical mass of diverse interests.
What’s weird is it’s always the accounts with no activity making these complaints…
Including this thread, OP has made 4 posts and 20 some comments over the last year.
How motivating do you think it is to post to smaller communities just to get an unrepresentative number of downvoters right off the bat? I can’t speak for OP but I’m sure there are plenty that don’t post or reply at all because of it.
I think at its core downvoting can be fine but on smaller platforms it’s easily abused as a form of content suppression, bullying, etc. Lemmy seems to be particularly prone to account hopping downvote spam, which sucks but it is what it is.
Thankfully Lemmy is flexible enough to create what you want more privately if one is so inclined. I’m smoking weed about it.
of course they matter, otherwise they wouldn’t exist. Think for a second before answering non-sense.
There is a reason this type of platform has a voting system.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 4 weeks ago
It’s hard to build a community when you get random downvote out of nowhere without explanation. You might have easy time to ignore it, but not everyone does.
Voltage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
this is what i was meaning to say. it does not look nice on the community page when every post is downvoted to oblivion. something the “downvotes don’t matter on lemmy” crowd just doesn’t understand.