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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Coupable@lemmy.world 1 week agoDownvoting 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.
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
Coupable@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Disagree
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
How many people did you get to change their point of view and/or behavior after being downvoted into oblivion?
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
Coupable@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Which community?
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The one pictured in the screenshots, !boringcompany@sh.itjust.works
Coupable@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In that case, this isn’t about mass downvoting, this is about users being banned by the moderator for downvoting one (1) post, one (1) time. The ‘mass downvoting’ (read, multiple users downvoting each post they don’t like one time each, as intended, and being banned for it) is my other post.