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Do communities on this instance have a worse down vote ratio? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Preface: Love this instance, happy to be here and this isnt a complaint just an observation.

OK so I mod a few communities across several instances, big and small. 3 on this very instance, I have noticed a pattern that posts on this instance tend to get a consistent early downvote count.

This might be my bad observations or the type of posts I see so I'd love to hear if anyone else has noticed the same.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Somebody wrote some down vote bots earlier, just to downvote everything... I think a couple of them got banned, but maybe they put them back up....

I believe a lot of the down vote behavior is the classic " I disagree ". Though I wish people used downvotes more sparingly, and to indicate they think somebody is not contributing at all to the conversation.

I do think the down votes have a chilling effect on some people, especially people who like to lurk, they see a bunch of downloads on a conversation they're unlikely to say anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Oh I didn't know about that