Post upvotes are like github stars

JubilantJaguar , 14 minutes ago

Semi-tangential. Every time I get downvoted, I move an inch closer to the exit door of this community.

I’m talking about comments rather than posts, of course. And it should go without saying that the comments in question do not contain factual errors or even rudeness. Just pure opinion, expressed civilly.

Downvoting is, almost always, poisonous behavior in an online community. It is just as poisonous as saying “Shut up” to someone in a real-life social situation.

IMO the corporate social networks get this fact better than the literalist geeky types and other well-meaning idealists to be found in this forum.

mark , 2 minutes ago

Every time I get downvoted, I move an inch closer to the exit door of this community.

By community, do you mean just this particular Lemmy community or the community on Lemmy collectively? If the latter, there are other alternative Lemmy communities on other instances that may be better suited for you.

Just would hate to see someone leave Lemmy over toxic energy in one place. There’s a big world here in fediverse!

alcoholicorn , 2 hours ago

Downvotes without any response: This is unpopular with this community, but probably correct.

Downvotes with responses: This was either contentious or wrong.

1 upvote, 0 downvotes, 10+ responses: You posted something really dumb, and Hexbear found out.

andrew_s , 3 hours ago

Yeah, it's the strange thing about engaging post titles - people seem to be so busy answering them, they 'forget' to also upvote them. In contrast, a meme that's funny but about which there's not much to say, is more likely to get an upvote as some kind of compensation for the lack of discussion.

Oisteink , 2 hours ago

Its a silly system that only worked on reddit for a short while. If you are old enough you’d know that already from slaahdot karma development/history

cron , 2 hours ago

If a post is interesting enough to write a comment, it also deserves an upvote.