Genuine question.
Something I’ve seen pointed out about Lemmy and I’m starting to notice a little bit occasionally, is that people love ‘answering’ questions by not really answering and grandstanding a little bit. Someone asks “is there a gen z community?” and the responses they get are things like “who cares about these generation labels?” and no answers to the question.
Here you ask why there’s a large amount of downvotes on a particular instance, and not what people’s personal philosophy regarding downvotes is, and yet the top answer is someone that came here especially to tell you that they don’t care and no one cares.
And these guys are gonna complain about people going to places like Bluesky instead of joining the fediverse. AskReddit was basically the gateway to Reddit for new users.
To try and guess at an answer, even though I’m new here and haven’t even seen downvotes for the last few days. I think that people are trying to keep a certain political atmosphere and not let trolls / right wingers / people who are “just asking questions” take over. So votes go hard in that direction. And also I think there’s probably a lot more of the types around here that’ll have a ‘discussion’ while downvoting every response they get from you, more than on Reddit. Just going by the sneering that comes with how some harmless questions are answered.
Fair assessment
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Votes are meaningless post your shit. Worsen your takes. No one fucken cares
What do you mean
Downvoted a bunch on lemmy.world
What did
Many posts on lemmy.world appear to have many downvotes
give us an example or two
maybe a link
or a screenshot
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They generally ban people…
What is the number of down votes to call it hell?
- 10
- 100
- 1000?
To be downvoted a bunch
I feel it really depends on the topic and the community. Do you have examples where you saw it and couldn’t explain it to yourself by looking at the content which has been downloaded?
Sure, hold on
here’s an example, but its obv not just my posts
So you are asking why shitty posts get down voted?
Obviously you couldn’t post that in /c/nostupidquestions
Lemmy.world has a lot of users and more users means more downvotes. It also happens to have a lot of news and political communities which attracts a lot of strong opinions.
Personally, I find the only function of downvotes is to discourage contributing and discourse, and that seems antithetical to what this platform is supposed to be about.
Just turn off the numbers, lots of clients have that option. Turns out it’s just algorithm weights to make frontpage list elements decay faster and not a real reflection of one’s worth as a person.
Because Lemmy is full of bots and miserable people.
