I started seeing a weird trend on Lemmy that I cannot understand.
Weeks ago, posts used to have downvotes and upvotes in the semi-rational range you would expect.
Out of nowhere, it seems like almost all the posts I see now have zero downvotes with some exceptions.
What is happening here exactly?
Possible reason:
Those that downvoted everything they find uninteresting when checking All have realized voting isn’t anonymous and stopped or been banned from the comms they mass downvote by a moderator who check who it is that downvotes all posts.
Or they figured out that downvoting stuff does not produce the desired result of telling the “algorithm,” which we don’t have around here, that they’re not interested in that type of content in their feed.
I get a smattering of 2 or 3 downvotes on all of my posts from completely random users who I therefore have to assume have no agenda other than not being interested in silly knives. That’s fine and all, but it’s also not how it works on Lemmy.
Oh hey, you’re the knife guy. Even though I’m not a knife nerd myself, I always enjoy the reads. 🙂
I mean when systemic downvoting brings you a community ban then it kinda works like the algorithm. ;)
Edit: Oh, and also. Banning a user from a community does not appear affect that community’s visibility to that user, i.e. they can still see it. They just can’t participate in it. I am banned from a smattering of communities either due to my own chutzpah (one of them is clearly a troll sub, you probably know the one) and a few at dubvee.org (presumably because someone there thought I pissed in their cornflakes at some point, though search me as to why or how since I never went there) and I can still see all of the content in those places.
It does prevent them from downvoting anything in it, though. At least it should if the world still makes any sense.