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Is strictly negative participation in a community healthy for lemmy? (hackertalks.com)
submitted 5 months ago by jet@hackertalks.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
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If a niche community has people that persistently downvote every post

  1. is that healthy for the community?
  2. is that healthy for lemmy in general?

Examples that come to mind are political communities, linus tech tips, diet communities, etc. There will be a group of people who will not make comments, posts, but will strictly downvote everything that is in the community.

This is a continuation of a discussion @Blaze@feddit.org and I started elsewhere, but it deserves it's own space for meta-moderation discussion.

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[–] celeste@kbin.earth 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If I'm making the effort to comment or post on topic in a community which mostly gets posts from one or two people, and i get immediate downvotes, I'm going to assume that's a signal I broke an unwritten rule. I probably wouldn't try posting there again.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 5 months ago

That would make sense if you are assuming that people are acting on good faith...

Can't make that assumption online imho

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 5 months ago

Good point

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 5 months ago

great point!