Are you endorsing that behavior? How ironic that meaningless scores are seen as an offence but removing people’s ability to participate is totally fine.
If you intentionally show up somewhere you clearly don’t want to be just to “boo” people minding their own business, yeah, you should be asked to leave and barred from “participating”.
Common courtesy is to not downvote things in /all that you don’t like if you’re not subscribed. Just ignore it or block the community and move on.
Am I guilty of that? Hell yeah, I am - never said I wasn’t. But I do try to be better and not just knee-jerk to the downvote button if I see something I don’t like in a community I’m neither subscribed to nor interested in.
If you want to contribute meaningfully to a conversation, try using your words rather than merely downvoting. You may actually change people’s minds that way?
But if you are just trying to emotionally satisfy yourself - nothing at all wrong with self-soothing imho, according to every psychology anything that I have ever heard of - then I suggest merely blocking such people or communities instead.
You have the right to your opinion… but the timing of when and where that must be shared is something that should be considered carefully, no? We do not want to be a community of incels here, where all these “such nice men” shove literally all of their collective and unfiltered thoughts down our throats regardless of consent. I say this as a warning to you: you will get banned that way, from many communities, if you actually practice this and not just talk about it theoretically as we are doing here.
“communication” is a 2-way street, and yes you have the capability to downvote, but also yes they can ban / block too.
How ironic that meaningless scores are seen as an offence
downvote trolls can be a problem for small communities trying to build up. I managed to discover the serial downvoters on my old lemm.ee comm and when I banned them (about 4 of them?) it had a huge impact. They didn’t all downvote /everything/ but they downvoted a lot of things, and no contribution. And if they got in early, they could sink new threads. Now, I wouldn’t just ban randoms for occasional downvotes - but if I kept seeing the same names on threads (and they never actually engaged with the community) with no discernable patterns - I might.
No. I will note though that half of the people I banned for downvoting on the old lemm.ee instance didn’t even have a comment history. Their accounts only existed to downvote. Others had been banned repeatedly by other communities for mass community downvoting. But even if they did, I would’ve still banned them. They were constantly downvoting new posts posted to the community and had no engagement with the community in comments or posts. How they may have behaved outside of it wouldn’t have come into it for me.
Are you endorsing that behavior? How ironic that meaningless scores are seen as an offence but removing people’s ability to participate is totally fine.
If you intentionally show up somewhere you clearly don’t want to be just to “boo” people minding their own business, yeah, you should be asked to leave and barred from “participating”.
Common courtesy is to not downvote things in /all that you don’t like if you’re not subscribed. Just ignore it or block the community and move on.
Am I guilty of that? Hell yeah, I am - never said I wasn’t. But I do try to be better and not just knee-jerk to the downvote button if I see something I don’t like in a community I’m neither subscribed to nor interested in.
It’s never their own business, the very nature of this platform is a form of communication with many people with many different opinions.
If you want to contribute meaningfully to a conversation, try using your words rather than merely downvoting. You may actually change people’s minds that way?
But if you are just trying to emotionally satisfy yourself - nothing at all wrong with self-soothing imho, according to every psychology anything that I have ever heard of - then I suggest merely blocking such people or communities instead.
You have the right to your opinion… but the timing of when and where that must be shared is something that should be considered carefully, no? We do not want to be a community of incels here, where all these “such nice men” shove literally all of their collective and unfiltered thoughts down our throats regardless of consent. I say this as a warning to you: you will get banned that way, from many communities, if you actually practice this and not just talk about it theoretically as we are doing here.
“communication” is a 2-way street, and yes you have the capability to downvote, but also yes they can ban / block too.
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I guess it sucks to have a target audience who doesn’t sort by new, skill issue.
Or I could just ban repeat downvoters lol
(Have only done this twice since making the transition)
Do you take their overall up/down ratio into account?
No. I will note though that half of the people I banned for downvoting on the old lemm.ee instance didn’t even have a comment history. Their accounts only existed to downvote. Others had been banned repeatedly by other communities for mass community downvoting. But even if they did, I would’ve still banned them. They were constantly downvoting new posts posted to the community and had no engagement with the community in comments or posts. How they may have behaved outside of it wouldn’t have come into it for me.
If it’s meaningless why does it matter if someone can’t do the meaningless thing anymore?