Every comment in this post got 1 downvote for literally no reason. Like… it’s a post about cats, nothing controversial at all. Do people just go around downvoting every post? Why?

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
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    It’s a hangover from Reddit culture. People think that the ALL page should be curated for them, not realising that it’s for everyone and that downvotes are for wrong content, not what they consider bad content in respects to their personal taste.

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      A downvote isn’t “I don’t think this should be here”. It’s just “I don’t like this”, don’t agree, thing it’s bad/wrong, whatever. Up/downvote systems work under the process of the wisdom of the crowd, and as a result, works under the assumption that while the ways in which people use these tools and the reasons may be different, having a simply up/downvote system means they’ll average out into something more useful. It doesn’t work all the time of course, but it does work generally.

      • copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I think you’re wrong. Downvotes are literally meant to be to provide a community powered mechanism to push irrelevant content into out of view, as per the community’s purpose. They are not going to be used as part of an algorithm to push more relevant content to you specifically. Of course, that’s not how a lot of people end up using them, so whether it’s an effective mechanism is another question.

        Meanwhile, I’m on an instance that doesn’t federate downvotes, so they don’t affect ranking here, maybe for the better?

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      What they don’t seem to understand is that in the fediverse it’s them who are responsible for curating their own experience, there’s no big content algorithm doing it for them here.

      It’s their job to join communities they may like and then set their main page to “subscribed”. They don’t have to keep it set in “ALL” if they don’t want to see content from all the servers their server federates with/isn’t defederated from.

      Lemmy and kbin may be discussion platforms/link aggregators, but they aren’t reddit.

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    People just found it not unfunny or distasteful. This post is getting downvoted because it comes off as whiney and annoying.

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    The whole idea of voting is the good stuff rises to the top and the bad stuff sinks into obscurity.

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    Probably some weird creeper angry at op for something somewhere and this is part of their temper tantrum.

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    I’ve seen this in some communities. It’s hard for me to believe that someone doesn’t know they can just block a community they don’t appreciate. So the next logical conclusion to me is that it’s petty protest, or a weak attempt at vote manipulation.

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    Scores could be hidden by default. Until then the redditors will continue their invasion.

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      I suspect this as well. Sorting by new I usually see everything has at least one down vote, it’s not 100% though, otherwise I’d assume it’s just a weird glitch.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      Currently no easy way to tell if it’s a bot IMO

      Usually Kbin exposes the users who voted, but that community doesn’t appear to be federating there correctly at the mo