Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.

powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Coupable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  because downvoting is one of the central actions pivotal to the kind of social media that Lemmy/piefed/reddit is.

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  • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s great for flagging spam or stuff that’s not relevant to the community it’s posted in. Downvoting content that’s good for a community just because you don’t like the community is like the godbotherers that yell at people about sin during pride celebrations. Don’t be like them.

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    • Coupable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Downvoting a toxic community is also a valid use of your downvote. Reddit has several examples (gamersriseup, the_donald, fatpeoplehate, among many more examples).

      Think of it like concerned citizens yelling at the westboro baptist church for being hateful pieces of shit.

      An analogy can really color an argument eh? I don’t usually engage in that kind of rhetoric, I find it undermines the conversation by overtly engaging with peoples emotions.

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      • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The community barely exists and certainly isn’t toxic. Mass downvoting is a great way to undermine the conversation though

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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Downvoting a toxic community is also a valid use of your downvote.

        No, it’s not. You can flag/report/block the author of any posts in the community if you want, but downvoting will not achieve anything of value except of a dopamine rush.

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  • everett@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    For real. What they’re missing is that Lemmy/Reddit display posts outside of their community, aggregating every post to an “/all” feed, and up/downvotes help sort the posts by Hot, Top and such.

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    • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, but downvoting something because you don't like the community is going to potentially lead to getting banned if the mods notice you doing it on there.

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      • everett@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        And nothing of value will be lost.

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  • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Votes are (or were) only meant to work as a signal of what the community thinks to be relevant. This is especially important for niche communities. You are being borderline authoritarian when you are not part of a community and you still think that the whole site needs to have a say in their discussion.

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    • Coupable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Authoritarian? you need your head checked.

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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If you feel compelled to try to silence people and try to justify yourself based on your value system, yes, you are being authoritarian.

        Also, it’s curious that you only managed to resort to a strawman as a response for me calling you out on your behavior. Surely you can do better than that…

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