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Do communities on this instance have a worse down vote ratio? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 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] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There are definitely instances with early downvotes, yours being one of them.

And even though "it doesn't matter", it's still mildly-infuriating to see obviously innocuous/irreverent posts/comments being dogpiled, nevermind the innocent/informative ones seemingly because "I disagree!".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it's still mildly-infuriating to see obviously innocuous/irreverent posts/comments being dogpiled

I think early downvoters are just trying to induce others to follow them because they're assholes and have nothing better to do. Unfortunately, it's pretty common with both Reddit and Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It seems to be more prevalent on lemmy - if the post or comment gets 3 or 4 downvotes before it even gains traction, then it's dogpiled.

You can see it irl yourself. Post the same comment in a different thread (within the same post!), and watch the difference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It seems to be more prevalent on lemmy

I've noticed this with the two largest Lemmy instances -- .ml and .world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't mod any communities but I do put in the effort to curate my "All" feed and most of the users & communities I block come from those 2 instances. Toss hexbear on there and that's almost 100%.

The .world is tricky bc it is such a large instance and that's where many new lemmings land so it's always going to be messy.

I still have my world account but never use it. I prefer being part of db0.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I don't mod any communities but I do put in the effort to curate my "All" feed and most of the users & communities I block come from those 2 instances. Toss hexbear on there and that’s almost 100%.

I specifically avoid all three of them as well, along with Beehaw.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I normally use my .world login, and there are 2 instances specifically on my regular scroll (all, active) that are at 0 or less mere minutes in....

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

That's weird. Someone else here in the comments section mentioned downvote bots, so it might be that (?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh I didn't know about that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My only fear is how it affects either on the scaled algorithm or how people's view is biased seeing a controversial post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Once a post or comment gets to -2, it's doomed.