cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54923731
Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.
Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.
Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.
Doesn’t being downvoted mean it’s not contributing
Let’s be honest: No. It’s an “I don’t like this/agree with this” button.
Whatever, just own your unpopular opinion or grow from your mistakes, but don’t shred the bits of content we have.
Well, sometimes I’m not sober, answer and afterwards figure out, that I completely got the wrong idea from the comment I was replying to
If there is already an answer, I tend to strike-through my comment instead of deleting
Mostly at leastMaybe I should really let them stay as well, as a personal reminder to take more care in what I’m answering to
(And since about a month GBoard seems to act really weird while swiping, like missing words or doing differently than before - anyone else?
At least, sometimes it’s not salvageable anymore in my opinion and the effort of correcting it is just too much…)Ive done strikethrough as well, seems perfectly reasonable.
Nah on larger communities we’ve already reached the point that going against the hivemind gets downvotes.
I think I upset technology by not sufficiently glazing signal (because it still depends on centralized infrastructure & Google/apple can send you backdoored updates), and there was no room for discussion only downvotes.
Downvoted just because, sorry about your karma
Yes and no. If you post something wildly unpopular that gets down voted a ton, then it is contributing (I would recommend not really replying to comments unless you feel very strongly about it though, otherwise you’ll probably be accused of trolling or being a tankie {whether you are or not}).
Not really, people get dogpiled on for dumb reasons on the internet all the time.
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