Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Downvote and move on. Mute accounts and communities you don’t want to see. Simple as.
Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Downvote and move on. Mute accounts and communities you don’t want to see. Simple as.
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But what’s the point of downvoting on Lemmy? It doesn’t seem to affect visibility. Or maybe there’s a setting somewhere I need to adjust?
Overspark@piefed.social 2 months ago
The point is signaling to other people that it’s not worth their time. I sort by new so I often see these slop posts as well, but other readers very quickly down vote it into oblivion so if a post is older than say 15 minutes I generally will know not to read it even if it sounds interesting at first glance. A mod will come by later to actually delete it is that’s warranted, but until then down votes suffice.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I typically sort by “top six hours” and I’m barely aware of the problem OP is talking about. So yeah, it seems like downvoting works.
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Depending on your sorting method, downvoted posts will be featured less favorably. You will immediately know that a heavily downvoted post is not worth your attention. Some clients might let you filter displayed posts based on the votes.
Telorand@reddthat.com 2 months ago
My instance has downvotes turned off (which I like). That action only benefits people who care about downvotes.
The better option that helps everyone is to report bad faith posts.
punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Looks like your comment is receiving downvotes just fine…
Maybe this thread is a lesson in how downvotes have a purpose and why instances turning them off is silly puritanical nonsense that serves to aid bad content more than anything else it purports to achieve.
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re supposed to report posts that break instance or community rules, not whatever you happen to consider to be “bad faith”. Moderators are not the arbiters of intent.