What annoys me about Reddit-like communities (yes including Lemmy) is that there’s this downvote feature.
The whole idea of these discussion boards is to have… discussions. Well, perhaps not so much this particular sub lol. So it’s annoying when you make a post or reply to someone with a constructive reply or argument, and then people can’t be arsed to actually reply, they just downvote to disagree and move on. It’s like the equivalent of people just going like “lol no” and then walk away.
Frankly it’s a feature that feels like it completely contradicts the point of online forums.
There are instances who don’t have 'em and even frontends that allow you to hide it.
That’s one reason I picked blahaj for my instance- no downvoting
I agree.
But also downvoting is very useful as community moderation tool. I participate in some communities with regular, scummy spam posts that are technically off topic and not quite bannable. They’d get naive, hype driven upvotes if left alone. And I like that there’s a community mechanism to bury them.
Yeah I don’t think it’s entirely useless, it’s mostly useful for filtering out spam posts and unrelated stuff from communities.
Just on a comment/discussion level it feels like it’s not that great.
I posted twice, automod got one of them, but the other was gloriously empowering. Can recommend 8/10 Edit: I’m definitely a lurker though. We have value and votes, and are important to the ecosystem!
I made one post and feel like I’ve earned my retirement.
Ok, I made it on a prior account but I inherited the retirement dammit!
No, fuck you.
Sup.
Every time I post it’s in the wrong community or against some rule and I get the hammer
I post things I want to see, but I’m apparently alone in that desire
Been there, felt the pain
Can’t. I get way too invested in this shit and its bad for my mental health.
But I’m shy 😳👉👈
i posted once!
The math checks out.
Jesus man I remember your username, either you comment a lot or post from a different account? What is it?
1k comments in 2 months. Something near 16 comments a day. Pretty active by most counts so yeah you might’ve seen him lol
look ma, no life!
btw you should refer to people on the internet as “them”Yep. Also seen you. I love recognising names on here.
But if the people who actually post something have not posted yet, or example because they were just born and thus too busy learning how to breathe to post yet, are they born cool even if they are then prevented from posting? Is a born-cool poster who loses the ability to post through a freak curling iron accident retroactively unborn cool? Is a born-cool poster who has yet to make their first post Schrödinger’s cool poster until they actually make their first post?
I’m Comment-only. I don’t read.
I comment only. I don’t read.
but I read comments
Thank you for getting the joke. I was really worried no one would :-D
I do my best but I’m not that creative.
Every once in a while my two brain cells will bounce together and come up with something half assed.
Just because of that I’m gonna lurk for a whole week straight and theres not a damn thing you can do to stop me.
chemotherapy?
Lame.
Akshually, we’re called lurkers.
Since you already complained about the wrong vocabulary, I can continue with my lurking ways.
To all the “Someone already said it!” Filter by hot. Or even better new. Then you can be the first to say your beige take.
