Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.

Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.

Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.

  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    you’re basically telling them to delete it

    There is nothing to suggest this. Some people may interpret it this way, many will not. It’s absurd to say why someone would be downvoting, or how the other would interpret it, when this thread alone has like 5 other examples of what a downvote means. The only thing that can be definitively stated is that downvoting will moving the comment/post further down in the default listing.

    Lemmy uses a voting system to sort post listings. On the left side of each post there are up and down arrows, which let you upvote or downvote it. You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them, or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen. Each post receives a score which is the number of upvotes minus the number of downvotes.

    https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

    • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      The only thing that can be definitively stated is that downvoting will moving the comment/post further down in the default listing.

      Exactly, deletion by positioning. Downvote makes it so fewer people will see it, so yes if someone gets downvoted that means someone thinks your comment isn’t worth seeing.