People even downvote legit news from fairly non-biased sources on Lemmy just because they don’t like what is being reported. It’s actually kinda wild.
Complaing about downvotes? Straight to jail.
for some reason i literally can’t downvote anything
You’re on a no-downvote instance.
Sorry, sister. As others have said Blahaj Zone doesn’t do downvotes. I think it was to ensure a less negative space for The Community (in that you can still downvote things and brigade without being clocked as bigoted) but that’s a bit apocryphal.
Instances can disable this feature maybe blahaj has done so?
Why care? There is no karma system. Just move on
I worked at a site with a karma system years before reddit and the like ever came into being. There will always be people who just downvote anything they don’t like. Unless you start finding and removing those users, nothing is going to change with them. And if you start removing chunks of your community, you have fewer posters, less interaction, etc.
I think people often use /all to browse, which makes sense for a fairly small site like Lemmy. But the downside is that people then upvote or downvote based on their preferences, not the community’s.
(Eg, the fellow below who has decided Apple and Nintendo are like Nazis and must always be downvoted.)
But the downside is that people then upvote or downvote based on their preferences, not the community’s.
This is only a downside for niche communites promoting positive topics like equality. Communities about for profit companies, that promote horrible ideas and people, etc are what downvotes are for.
If there was a community called “Nestlé is awesome” I would hope it gets downvoted into oblivion.
I don’t like linux, should I downvote all linux stuff? Does that make the fediverse better?
Sure, go for it. I literally do not care how people use single accounts to vote on any topic.
When they use multiple accounts, yeah that is clearly terrible because they are artificially inflating their votes.
Weird thread to be commenting on if you literally don’t care but you do you!
I personally think this sort of stuff helps keep the fediverse from being awesome but you do you!
I care about voting freely, not the actual vote results.
I upvote a shit ton of stuff which makes it more visible. That helps the fediverse. The shitty posts and comments that I downvote are what I see keeping the fediverse from being awesome.
Except, and I’m stunned this is a surprise to some but here we are, not everyone agrees on what’s awesome and what’s shitty.
So, in OP’s case, the people who come here to talk about the nintendo games and then decide to take the plunge and post something are met with downvotes for having the audacity to post in a harmless community that others don’t like.
It’s lame and makes the fediverse less fun for folks, which is poison for somewhere that depends on network effects.
List of votes for spankmonkey@lemmy.world:
Total post upvotes/downvotes: 38206/883 [39089] 97.74% upvoted
Total comment upvotes/downvotes: 90499/9089 [99588] 90.87% upvoted
List of votes for mybrainhurts@lemmy.ca:
Total post upvotes/downvotes: 5591/171 [5752] 97.20% upvoted
Total comment upvotes: 1081/179 [1341] 80.61% upvoted
Maybe you shouldn’t be down voting so much?
Does it stay in the Apple and Nintendo communities or does it get cross-posted everywhere? I don’t downvote for dislike, but I don’t want to block a general community because some asshat is crossposting just under spam levels.
I downvote for verifiably false.
That’s typical reddit behavior, many of them brought their childish habits over to the fediverse.
I try my best to only downvote explicitly hateful or unhelpful comments
But I can get it because I have blocked every single news source I possibly can, and like every three to eight days a new one pops up.
Like, I don’t give a fuck about news. I don’t want to know how miserable the world is or how much more miserable it is than yesterday. I want to look at kitties and titties and maybe some funny stuff in between and that’s about it.
Once you amass a collection of communities that do interest you, you could browse your subscribed feed instead of all. That’s what I’ve done. It got annoying needing to skip past a lot of content that wasn’t relevant to me, was crossposted and showed up as duplicates, or was in a language I don’t speak. Then you have a whitelist you can grow when you feel like it instead of a blacklist that needs to be added to when new communities show up. Subbing to one of those new community promotion places lets you see most of the active new communities anyway, and you can check out any interesting ones without them invading your feed first.
In Hexbear we don’t have down votes, so you have to engage with someone to express disapproval
Instead of downvotes, we have many, many disapproving emotes.
Yes, it’s typical.
Votes don’t mean much, but communities that deviate from the main spirit have to live with them. (And yes, that’s mostly bad, even though in a few cases it’s good.)
No, to be fair, they can ban the downvoters
Yes, they can. But that’s quite a lot of permanent work. Lots of people interact with the content here without even looking where it is.
I have only seen the “bad” unaligned communities doing that. The ones that actually have interesting stuff seem to just live with the votes.
I don’t mean ban every downvoter, but ban repeat downvoters. People who are clearly downvoting most things posted without any pattern.
