Genuine question.

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • Fleur_@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    11 hours ago

    Votes are meaningless post your shit. Worsen your takes. No one fucken cares

  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    182·
    12 hours ago

    Lemmy is generally very downvote-happy compared to Reddit or other sites. I’d guess its be because of the cinical, pessimistic attitude of a lot of the people here. Unfortunately, its something you’ll have to get used to here. On the bright side, this applies to everyone, so you’re not being targetted or anything and the same anchor will apply to everyone.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    12 hours ago

    It is an influx of children that happened over the last few months. It is also admin failing to remove the primary half dozen people that represent 90% of all downvoting here as other admins have shared as happening from their panel view. This failure to act is the leading thing holding Lemmy back at the moment. The sad thing is that this server has not been kept up to date which is really bad for Lemmy overall IMO. The lack of action against the amplification of a few bad actors is further evidence of a sick system overall here and is very concerning.

      • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        11 hours ago

        Does it not show any downvotes at all, like drops them and only shows positive, or does it show the general vote where the view can go below zero?

        I need to see the negative vote and stuff in 3d printing where I actually need to do occasional mod stuff. I would prefer if we all had the mindset that not voting or engaging is negative feedback just like in the real world.

        Personally, I want the duality of seeing every post and every vote where I’m a mod, but I want to drop all negative votes entirely everywhere else, like I don’t want the aggregate or total, I only want the positive because I never post in bad faith and I am more than mature enough to spot bad actors without any assistance needed from voting. IMO all anonymous negativity is a psychotic disorder and its implementation is sadistic nonsense that should not happen. It is no different than walking up to a stranger in the supermarket and cursing at them for the clothes that they wear or how they talk. Everyone has a right to be negative, but they must be required to engage openly where I have a chance to block them.

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Personally, I want the duality of seeing every post and every vote where I’m a mod, but I want to drop all negative votes entirely everywhere else,

          Have you tried using an alt to mod? That way you can have different settings on each account. Well, you would also need an account on another instance than LW, settings to display only upvotes appeared in 0.19.4 IIRC

          • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            I use Alexandrite. Photon doesn’t work with my network settings in either the independent page or the LW native apparently because of JavaScript. I don’t use apps for anything like this on mobile and social is nearly 100% mobile for me.

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          5·
          11 hours ago

          I’m not an expert but I think we see just the positive vote. The worst takes will usually have 2 or 3 upvotes still.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    3·
    10 hours ago

    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.

  • 299792458ms@lemmy.zip
    4·
    11 hours ago

    I would not know, but it really depends on how people treat the vote. Personally it represents disapproval (not disagreement).

  • zecg@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 hours ago

    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.