Funny that someones post got removed for having negative Karma lol
Downvoting to indicate you’re not interested is not how it works (or worked). Same for Lemmy.
*I’m saying that voting doesn’t impact your feed in the way of “show me more like this” or “show me less of this”.
Unfortunately so. The original goal of downvotes in the reddiquette used to say that downvotes were meant for posts and comments that were uninteresting/spam and didn’t contribute to the discussion, but unfortunately most people use it to shut down viewpoints they don’t agree with.
Reddit had, historically, been pretty good about the first few posts in an article complementing or rebutting the headline (particularly when the OP is controversial). Now the degree of fake engagement has made that harder to come by, simply because its hard to procedurally generate a rational set of ideas.
But in more insular and criticism-hostile communities, you’d regularly see a “Fuck <Thing We All Don’t Like>” as the most upvoted comment, with any critique or nuance buried under a hill of downvotes. You’ll also see some variation of Fed-jacking/Bot-tagging used to rebut any thoughtful criticism.
In fairness, we see it around here, too. People get dogpiled for having an .ml source account. People get tagged as “Russian Bot” or “CCP Tankie” for expressing the least bit of criticism of US/UK foreign policy. There’s just an orgy of hate in social media, even in areas that don’t explicitly encourage it.
Reddiquette doesn’t work when you see in-group shitposts as positive contributions and outsider critiques as inconsequential spam. Doubly so when the mods are pushing a particular agenda.
Would be nice, I realized recently that a lot of people here will still act that way and downvote your stuff as a disagree/don’t like button
Same for Lemmy.
Depends, I use it to signal content that is off-topic for a community. I know it’s not the most common usage though
Roughly one year ago, you say? Gee, I wonder what could possibly have happened roughly one year ago, hrm? Can’t really think of anything particularly memorable that happened roughly one year in the past… [them, OP and all the commenters]
I wonder what the timeline is before the inevitable selling of data results in users getting doxxed.
There’s apparently another issue that’s depriorotizing “niche” subs in the recommendation algorithm, that some mod claimed was a bug.
It’s pretty obvious, they’re just prioritizing generic engagement for profit.
bots, shills and feds driving narrative while normies upvote and add non sequitur comments
So if I say “^This”, but like ironically, would that be funny?
No? Too soon you say? Never in a million years you say? You will now proceed to grind my organs and feed them to a billionaire’s child you say? Okay, cul, just checking 😎.
Make sure to keep a close eye on this one!