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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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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

The purpose and shape of a community should be up to the moderator. If someone wants to grow a "community" full of complaining and whining (and there are absolutely people who do) that should be up to the mods.

That said, I think downvote abuse is super annoying, not healthy for "Lemmy in general" and would personally prefer it banned in communities I participate in.