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.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 45 points 7 hours ago (8 children)

Deleting a post because it got downvotes? Who are these babies who can’t take people not liking them?

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The other day somebody asked me a question and I couldn't be bothered to deal with them, but later on I decided to answer in earnest and deleted the previous response.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

That’s so annoying

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

As someone with social anxiety for some people seeing a large negative social response to something you said or did, even if just abstractly represented by a number, can be pretty distressing 🤷🏻‍♂️

I generally leave stuff up unless its misleading or something, but I can empathize with why someone would take it down

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 7 hours ago

Sometimes down votes are a sign that you're saying things people don't want to hear or the right things but on a crazy instance, but sometimes down votes are a chance for self reflection where you have to ask yourself "Am I the asshole?" and in the latter case yeah I'm probably just going to delete it. No apologies though, I'm not looking to be a saint here.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 31 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I will say in their defense that some people delete their comments/posts not because they care about "karma" but because they now feel they were wrong and are genuinely embarrassed or think that its continued presence is just an annoyance to other people.

That said, imo, unless you realize you've broken a rule in posting it or literally just posted by accident, it's healthier for yourself and the community to simply e.g. edit in a correction and a "mea culpa", even if you continue to get dogpiled for it.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone’s presence is annoying. That’s called being human.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Is there no one in your life whose presence you enjoy?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

All the time? Fuck no. Hell, my wife and I love each other in part because we like time alone.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org -1 points 6 hours ago

That's an impossible standard to achieve. Best one can do is become neutral, whatever benefits they bring balances out the burden of dealing with them.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -2 points 7 hours ago

Not who you're replying to, but.....nope.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

people not liking them

Half of lemmy:

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

I've seen it a few times. It's stupid. Why bother participating if you're just going to take your ball home, so to speak.

[–] brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I've had discussions here with people that don't want down votes, like in YouTube. There are instances that have them disabled.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Have you seen the president, or met any of the millions of people who voted for him?