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I think something needs to be done about downvotes. Any hardcore content I post is immediately downvoted. Pretty much all hard content I post gets 5 downvotes. Some recover, some don't.
I think people browse local and most don't seem to like hard content. People here seem to prefer softcore. That's fine, but downvoting is not the response to that.
I think you may have to remove downvotes and people will have to make their own subscription list and browse that. (What I do is browse local and then block the communities that I'm not interested in.)
(I'll copy this to the other thread, but this one seems more active and I want it to be seen.)
We now have a discussion about this going on in the modcoordination matrix room, with the admins engaging...
I'm sure bridgade-voting manipulation by related accounts/groups (up or down votes) happen here as on Reddit, but the effect is much more magnified here...
Brigade implies an organized (one way or another) effort, which I don't think it is. This is the result of people browsing 'local' and downvoting what they don't like, when it's entirely suitable for the community it's on.
Update re downvoting: see https://lemmynsfw.com/post/4581685