Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?
rtxn@lemmy.world 22 hours 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 22 hours ago
Downvote and move on. Mute accounts and communities you don’t want to see. Simple as.
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 20 hours 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 20 hours 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 17 hours 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 20 hours 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 18 hours 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 18 hours 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 18 hours 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.