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Why would you downvote something you’re not even interested in without looking at it? You’re not feeding an algorithm here — your downvote doesn’t affect what content you’ll see in the future, it just makes it appear to others that the content had been downvoted.
Upvote content you like. Downvote content you actively don’t like.
Some people have wild personal psychologies.
All I really do is post owl stuff, and I'll pick up a stray downvote here or there by accident I'm assuming. But I had one user downvoting near every post I made. No biggie to me, just a curiosity really. I wasn't sure why they wouldn't just block me or the community if they didn't like the content, but whatever. This went on for a couple months.
One day they left a comment finally and it was a positive one. I replied essentially "thanks, but I thought you hated my content or me myself." Their reply was "nah, I love all your posts, I just downvote everything from .world to lower them in the sort." My guy, it's one vote. The whole thing was funny, especially since learning they were actually a fan, but so confusing to attempt to penalize someone for such a random reason, especially someone you seemingly enjoy.
To stop seeing the content with that setting. it's faster than opening the post.
That's pretty much what I do.
Downvoting won't achieve that. Just block the community its from if it is consistently a source of posts you're not interested in.
Every post I vote stops showing when I reload the page.
To warn you, downvoting is public on the forumverse, so if you are perceived as reflexively downvoting at scale in a community- you risk getting community banned.
what setting? you don't stop seeing content by downvoting it. I don't know how that would work. Or do you mean the "hide content I have interacted with" setting?
Yes that setting. I stop seeing posts after I reload by voting them with that setting enabled.
You need a client that marks a post as read as you scroll by. On Android I use Summit. In a browser Voyager should do. Maybe we get it with Lemmy 1.0 in Lemmy-UI, I don't know.
in that case, you could simply upvote them instead of downvoting them ;)