cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54923731
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.
Doesn’t being downvoted mean it’s not contributing
Let’s be honest: No. It’s an “I don’t like this/agree with this” button.
Whatever, just own your unpopular opinion or grow from your mistakes, but don’t shred the bits of content we have.
Well, sometimes I’m not sober, answer and afterwards figure out, that I completely got the wrong idea from the comment I was replying to
If there is already an answer, I tend to strike-through my comment instead of deleting
Mostly at leastMaybe I should really let them stay as well, as a personal reminder to take more care in what I’m answering to
(And since about a month GBoard seems to act really weird while swiping, like missing words or doing differently than before - anyone else?
At least, sometimes it’s not salvageable anymore in my opinion and the effort of correcting it is just too much…)Ive done strikethrough as well, seems perfectly reasonable.
Same, and agree! With an edit owning the strike through content and why I came back to edit. That, to me, shows growth when others do it. Own the mistake and carry on!
Nah on larger communities we’ve already reached the point that going against the hivemind gets downvotes.
I think I upset technology by not sufficiently glazing signal (because it still depends on centralized infrastructure & Google/apple can send you backdoored updates), and there was no room for discussion only downvotes.
Downvoted just because, sorry about your karma
I’m certain that’s not how people opposed to AI use the feature 😅
It’s supposed to be, but people really like being able to negate the amount of likes on something they disagree with
Yes and no. If you post something wildly unpopular that gets down voted a ton, then it is contributing (I would recommend not really replying to comments unless you feel very strongly about it though, otherwise you’ll probably be accused of trolling or being a tankie {whether you are or not}).
I would recommend not really replying to comments unless you feel very strongly about it though
Haha yeah good advice there, if it’s a serious topic.
Not really, people get dogpiled on for dumb reasons on the internet all the time.
Mbin does have karma however. So it’s not like it doesn’t exist at all on the fediverse.
Also, this isn’t entirely correct about Piefed. It does actually have a karma system, it’s just based on your up-/downvote ratio, not a number that ticks up endlessly. Some instances like piefed.social also have a hidden karma system that penalizes you for what it considers bad behavior iirc.(edit: that latter paragraph isn’t really relevant)
also, be aware that some instances don’t “do” downvotes at all, so some of us can’t see them. (This post has 44 upvotes as far as I can see. if it also has 100 downvotes, I can’t see them.)
ETA: now it’s up to
7099.At this writing it has 91 up and one down.
I only see 64 up and none down.
Lemmy.World, where this is posted, doesn’t hide downvotes. However, federation between instances can sometimes not show the accurate vote totals and will be different depending on where you’re viewing it from.
SPECULATOR sees 64 up 0 down; I only see 62 up but also 0 down. 🤷♂️
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