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Is there a change in Lemmy voting culture? (literature.cafe)

submitted 3 days ago by Lacanoodle@literature.cafe to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like non political posts are controversial more often now than they were before. Ive seen it on some communities I visit often.

Maybe I'm seeing smth that isn't there.

Maybe its to do with more reddit migrations who aren't as accusatomed to Lemmy?

Has anyone else noticed it?

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[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It does feel like there's a new wave of change, I have no idea if it's due to new reddit refugees or general discontent. But yes, there does seem to be a lot more down voting, more quarrelsome comments, less cohesion within some communities.

There's also been a few posts sprinkled across instances discussing some accounts that do nothing but down vote. No comments, no posts, just down votes

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

some accounts that do nothing but down vote. No comments, no posts, just down votes

I'm noticing a lot of those too!

[–] Lacanoodle@literature.cafe 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep I've heard of the downvotes only accounts too. Infact I've heard of admins wanting to remove em too

[–] treverflume@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe we could make it so when you get an upvote you "spend it" when you down vote? Would also encourage everyone to upvote more too.

[–] Lacanoodle@literature.cafe 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dont need anymore gamification of social media. Best just to ignore it imo

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Downvotes impact visibility of content