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People like this (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Waking up every day and drinking that Hatorade.

If you don't like anything on the the platform, why stick around?

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[–] 12 points 10 months ago* (12 children)

Personally I factor this in with bans on my communities. I very rarely ban, but I do if I notice people like this, who I dub "downvote trolls". They don't participate (or when they do it's negatively), the just downvote constantly.

Now I'm fine with downvotes, I downvote, I think it's healthy to say "I don't like this content". However if all you do is downvote (especially in a specific community) then I view a ban as a win win. We don't have to deal with your negativity and obviously you don't enjoy being here anyway from your voting patterns, so everyone wins.

For my communities I have a pretty healthy ratio. If you downvote 80% of the content, you're on my radar. I won't ban you on that data alone, but seriously 4 out of 5 votes on the community are on average down then why are you there?

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Personally, I agree (we would never do this in a large community for the record). But yes, there are people who think that they can "kill" a small community with downvotes because they don't like the topic.

    The sad thing is, it's true. In a community where most posts have under 5 or so votes, one person coming in and systematically downvoting every post will keep people from seeing it who may be interested. If someone doesn't like a topic, they can block the community, but when they take steps to prevent others from seeing it, that's toxic. It's bad for the health of the platform.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Exactly my use case, I'm on a couple communities that I'm sure there are people out there don't like, but for the few of us who do really like the community we enjoy it. Those who don't enjoy it are welcome to block us or not subscribe to us, but they insist instead on downvoting every single post because they personally don't like it, ruining the experience for the actual people who do care about the community. You're also right that it's a small community, we're not talking about Ask Lemmy, we're talking about a small community with less than 100 people. Where a post may get a few up votes

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Content from all communities shows up on my feed, like most others'. Confused mods, possibly like you, seem to get angry when the see people regularly downvote content that they seem to be low-quality, even when those people are doing so without regard of the specific community.

    If you don't want to deal with downvotes in a community, you might be better off moving it to an instance that does not support downvotes.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    A bit of selfresponsibility would help both sides tho - if you browse /all, you get /all, so instead of downvoting stuff you are not subscribed to and where you might be missing the context of the community, it would be best for you and the others to just filter the community instead of downvoting every single time.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I ignore stuff that's simply irrelevant to me; I downvote slop and actual garbage in an attempt to help make everything better for everyone.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    One man's garbage is another man's treasure.

    If you browse by all and end up always negatively interacting with a community it's reasonable to get removed from that community

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    No, there's some objective garbage out there.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    And this is why you get uninvited from participating in communities you don't like. An opinion isn't objective simply because it is your opinion

    https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=121184

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    That's not at all what I'm talking about. Random downvotes are a constant, those don't matter to me. However if you really hit 80% downvotes in my community alone, then to me I'm doing you a favor. You should have just blocked my community, so I'll do it for you. It is honestly difficult to get that high or a downvote rate.

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