this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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If someone comes across an active well moderated community filled with on-topic content of an objectively high quality where everyone seems to be having fun, and that someone downvotes everything in that community every day, how is that beneficial? Why don't they post content they like? If they hate everything, why don't they block the community? Why are they spending time and effort to downvote so much stuff every day when it would be easier, and seemingly better for their mental health, to either block and move on, or contribute the flavor of content they want to see?
No one is getting banned for downvoting content here and there, but if they're putting effort in ensuring everything in a community is downvoted, they'd just be spreading illwill for no good reason :(
A good mod will help their community grow and flourish and have a good vibe. A mass downvoter who contributes nothing else is harmful to those things, and it makes sense a mod would want to defend their community against that.
Edit: kind've ironic that you simply downvoted both me and Blaze π
Indeed ha ha
But they didn't downvote you... it was someone else entirely
When I made that comment it was the case