Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.

Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.

Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    The Internet points don’t matter and never mattered on any platform.

    Have you ever met internet people? Basically all of them are idiots; who cares what they think?

    • Mpatch@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yes. Sometimes driving through down town, I see a specific type of person where you just know these are the fucking morons you spend time arguing online with. Completely out of touch with reality but claim to be all wise.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    They need to imagine for a second that there is no differnce between upvotes and downvotes. I make a anti commie statment in a crowd of tankies and those downvotes are validation of the truth for me. I see so many black and white hottakes online and getting downvotes for throwing a little nuance into their soured perceptions is honestly quite fun.

  • ramble81@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Someone should create an archive with a custom fork of Lemmy that federates with instances but ignores delete requests. Should be easily doable.

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    On lemmy, downvotes are as much a badge of honor as upvotes. Chase the controversy! That’s what the design incentivizes.

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Don’t worry about it I wrote a bot to keep track of how popular you are judging by the amounts of upvotes you got.

    It’s what people crave, like electrolytes.

  • Shindo66@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I recently cheated on lemmy with reddit for a couple days. I’m back to lemmy. I like the community more and I find myself scrolling way less. I get what I would want to get out of reddit without sooooo much bullshit that you end up scrolling for an hour without even realizing it.

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I recently cheated on lemmy with reddit for a couple days.

      You bare-bottomed whore of Babylon! I bet you’ve been pouting at twitter and blue sky too. And facebook’s had it’s slimy hands all over you, I can smell it from here

  • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I appreciate that this is an open source community where speech is more flexible which is what I was drawn to about lemmy but as with before I got banned on reddit, if I feel if my posts are embarrassing or show that they have no value to the people I am talking to, then I will remove them to not clog thread space.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      As an alternative to deleting a post (which also deletes all other people’s comments) you can also edit your post and replace it with a “.” or “deleted” or similar.

      There have been so many times that I go back to find a comment i remember, but can’t find anything because OP deleted a post, which isn’t how it works on reddit.

      • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        funny enough I use “Deleted” or “.” on a different forum. So I’ll do that here if the conversation hasn’t surpassed too many comments going back and forth because just because someone doesn’t directly agree with my opinion or what I think or even doesn’t believe anything factual that has source links given along with it doesn’t mean that the information throughout the argument or conversation can’t be valuable to someone else.

  • auzy1@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    One of the admins on a previous lemmy server I was on absolutely cheesed me off (also, I donated to that server).

    So, I deleted my posts to stop the server getting attention, especially a few of them were actively supporting the network

    The admin was defending an absolute nutter who was admin on another server who was trying to shut down any opinions and discussions.

    The rest of the admins were awesome, but after seeing that, it just felt weird to support them.

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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    3 days ago

    Mbin does have karma however. So it’s not like it doesn’t exist at all on the fediverse. Your karma is 1645 for me btw, though obviously depends on the posts of yours that have been federated to my instance.

    Also, this isn’t entirely correct about Piefed. It does actually have a karma system, it’s just based on your up-/downvote ratio, not a number that ticks up endlessly. Some instances like piefed.social also have a hidden karma system that penalizes you for what it considers bad behavior iirc.

    • silly_goose@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Mbin does have karma however

      TIL. that’s quite interesting.

      this isn’t entirely correct about Piefed. It does actually have a karma system,

      I’m talking about reddit-like karma system that is based on up/downvotes you have recieved on all your existing posts and comments. This is the kind that encourages you to delete downvoted posts to boost your karma.

      • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Well when you’re down voted on reddit they attack you and make you feel some kind of an odd sense of shame because of the hive mind that if you don’t show conformity to, you’re the odd man out and therefore, down voted to shit and nothing you say reached anyone because your comment gets hidden after being down voted enough times that it makes you feel like what’s the point of even keeping it up if no one’s ever gonna see it unless they get curious enough to click it to view the comment you wrote which might even have more value to the conversation going off the central point of the main question op asked, than you could imagine and again it makes you wonder why did I fucking even if no one gives a fuck to the point where what you said gets hidden. Not removed, hidden. That hurts.

        So over time reddit culture teaches people to inadvertently delete posts when they feel as though they have no value and it sticks with people. That’s why people delete posts. Is the unconscious muscle memory of deleting something they don’t think anyone will care about.

        Maybe it’s about the karma for some people but to me if what to say has no value to the people I am trying to reach then I will remove it. Period.

      • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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        3 days ago

        Right, I forgot the Piefed system is about votes you give out while the Reddit system is the opposite, votes you receive. I mean I did remember, but I forgot to use my critical reasoning there and notice the mismatch.

  • Starik@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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    3 days ago

    Some communities are banning users for getting into mundane arguments with other commenters.