Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.
Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.
Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.
But don’t post misinformation or break rules. That’s the only reason for downvotes anyway
Down votes are for whatever the person down voting wants it to be. There is no one reason
No. We have lemmyquite. Down votes are not, for example, for “I disagree”
I’m glad you learned something today about this platform
I disagree. And my down vote reflects that :)
I’ve reported you for spreading misinformation
Don’t do that.
Do your job.
Someone being wrong is not spreading misinformation. Grow up, I’m not a babysitter.
It is absolutely the mods job to teach people how to use this website. You use bans to remove people who post things offtopic, fail to caption images, and use a down vote button incorrectly.
It’s your job to educate, delete, and ban.
It would only be misinformation if I actually liked your comment but hit the dislike button. Which I can promise is not the case
Most downvotes are because someone doesn’t agree with you.
If that were true, we have a lot of work on our hands to educate users on this site. A banner message at the top of every page once day per month might help.
Or a bot run by the admin that sends DMs to someone when the put their first down vote on new accounts.