• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    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.

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      7 days ago

      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.

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            7 days ago

            You said, as a response to me saying that people should be able to vote how they want.

            I personally think this sort of stuff helps keep the fediverse from being awesome but you do you!

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              7 days ago

              Yes, and?

              Edit: is your position now that any and all down votes are bad for the fediverse?

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                6 days ago

                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.

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                    6 days ago

                    Jet has an automated removal bot that will nuke someone for a single down vote. Their opinion is worthless because their moderation is dog shit.

                    Your question made my brain hurt because I had no idea how you think my opinion did a 180 because I pointed out that you don’t practice what you preach.