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Is strictly negative participation in a community healthy for lemmy? (hackertalks.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by jet@hackertalks.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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If a niche community has people that persistently downvote every post

is that healthy for the community?
is that healthy for lemmy in general?

Examples that come to mind are political communities, linus tech tips, diet communities, etc. There will be a group of people who will not make comments, posts, but will strictly downvote everything that is in the community.

This is a continuation of a discussion @Blaze@feddit.org and I started elsewhere, but it deserves it's own space for meta-moderation discussion.

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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for the post.

About systematically downvoting content, that's indeed a net negative. There was a previous thread almost a year ago on the same topic: https://lemmy.ml/post/13108690

The key thing is that mods should be able to see votes since almost a year (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4386), but because nobody implemented the feature on the front-end, they still can't.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People who run instances can see the votes already, so we can automate some possible solutions now.

Thanks for the reference to the previous discussion, I had no idea.

One possible response to this would be a slashdot style system where you only get a few downvotes randomly assigned in a interval, so you have to be choosy with them.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

People who run instances can see the votes already, so we can automate some possible solutions now.

It's definitely doable, that would probably help a few mods.

One possible response to this would be a slashdot style system where you only get a few downvotes randomly assigned in a interval, so you have to be choosy with them.

Indeed