I care about voting freely, not the actual vote results.
I upvote a shit ton of stuff which makes it more visible. That helps the fediverse. The shitty posts and comments that I downvote are what I see keeping the fediverse from being awesome.
Except, and I’m stunned this is a surprise to some but here we are, not everyone agrees on what’s awesome and what’s shitty.
So, in OP’s case, the people who come here to talk about the nintendo games and then decide to take the plunge and post something are met with downvotes for having the audacity to post in a harmless community that others don’t like.
It’s lame and makes the fediverse less fun for folks, which is poison for somewhere that depends on network effects.
I’ve had to remove the person your talking to from several communities for always downvoting the content, they don’t hate everything, but the things they hate they love to hate.
Their philosophy, suppress the things you don’t like, doesn’t scale to a general population. For every topic there will be people who don’t like it. So if everybody can suppress everybody else, everybody suppressed, participation is chilled, lemmy dies.
Sure, go for it. I literally do not care how people use single accounts to vote on any topic.
When they use multiple accounts, yeah that is clearly terrible because they are artificially inflating their votes.
Weird thread to be commenting on if you literally don’t care but you do you!
I personally think this sort of stuff helps keep the fediverse from being awesome but you do you!
I care about voting freely, not the actual vote results.
I upvote a shit ton of stuff which makes it more visible. That helps the fediverse. The shitty posts and comments that I downvote are what I see keeping the fediverse from being awesome.
Except, and I’m stunned this is a surprise to some but here we are, not everyone agrees on what’s awesome and what’s shitty.
So, in OP’s case, the people who come here to talk about the nintendo games and then decide to take the plunge and post something are met with downvotes for having the audacity to post in a harmless community that others don’t like.
It’s lame and makes the fediverse less fun for folks, which is poison for somewhere that depends on network effects.
List of votes for spankmonkey@lemmy.world:
Total post upvotes/downvotes: 38206/883 [39089] 97.74% upvoted
Total comment upvotes/downvotes: 90499/9089 [99588] 90.87% upvoted
List of votes for mybrainhurts@lemmy.ca:
Total post upvotes/downvotes: 5591/171 [5752] 97.20% upvoted
Total comment upvotes: 1081/179 [1341] 80.61% upvoted
Maybe you shouldn’t be down voting so much?
What does this have to do with what I wrote?
You said, as a response to me saying that people should be able to vote how they want.
Yes, and?
Edit: is your position now that any and all down votes are bad for the fediverse?
I’ve had to remove the person your talking to from several communities for always downvoting the content, they don’t hate everything, but the things they hate they love to hate.
Their philosophy, suppress the things you don’t like, doesn’t scale to a general population. For every topic there will be people who don’t like it. So if everybody can suppress everybody else, everybody suppressed, participation is chilled, lemmy dies.
You are making my brain hurt.