I know that sounds a bit dumb/lame, but when I first got here and every post had like 5 upvotes, maybe 20 and then maybe once a week you’d see one with more than 100, it was jarring. Made the place feel empty and without interaction. Which it’s really not, but that was my and I think perhaps a lot of peoples’ first impression.
There’s also a trend of downvoting things ‘just because’. Not sure if it’s bots or just users who are trying to cater their feed by downvoting things they don’t like. But if people just blind downvote with no engagement, I feel like it discourages people from posting. This place needs to be more hospitable than StackOverflow.
Great point. To see if its worth joining a community I check how many posts it has, and then look at the posts to see if anyone actually reads them (votes). Too little activity its not worth wasting my time. i already have too many communities subscribed as it is.
More upvoting of posts.
I know that sounds a bit dumb/lame, but when I first got here and every post had like 5 upvotes, maybe 20 and then maybe once a week you’d see one with more than 100, it was jarring. Made the place feel empty and without interaction. Which it’s really not, but that was my and I think perhaps a lot of peoples’ first impression.
1000x rule.
10% of users have an account.
10% of accounts vote.
10% of voters comment.
By commenting, you are leaving an impact on the site worth 1000 users.
There’s also a trend of downvoting things ‘just because’. Not sure if it’s bots or just users who are trying to cater their feed by downvoting things they don’t like. But if people just blind downvote with no engagement, I feel like it discourages people from posting. This place needs to be more hospitable than StackOverflow.
Great point. To see if its worth joining a community I check how many posts it has, and then look at the posts to see if anyone actually reads them (votes). Too little activity its not worth wasting my time. i already have too many communities subscribed as it is.
I don’t care much about upvotes, but about activities. Most posts on Lemmy have little to no comments.
Let’s multiply upvote counts by random prime numbers. 😆