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      1 month ago

      Ok, can you give me your opinion as to why i got -8 on this post now?

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        Ah. That I can answer. Making posts on Lemmy being salty about downvotes begets more downvotes, almost guaranteed. Hope this helps.

        • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          This behaviour is also common to Reddit.

          The more time I spend here on Lemmy, the more Lemmy has the exact same issues I hoped it wouldn’t have from Reddit.

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            Absolutely. Some aspects are unavoidable, being an anonymous thread based forum, so trolling, flamebaiting, brigading and the like happen here just like Reddit.

            Luckily on Lemmy we do have workarounds to some of these issues. You can join instances that disable downvotes for people who are bothered by it. Federated, publicly visible moderation has its ups and downs but at least you have all the information and you can decide to move to an instance where you fit in better.

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          I have looked up “encabulate” in the dictionary and it doesn’t exist… 🤨 Your response is funny now, In hindsight …