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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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's a different situation though. Getting dogpiled isn't fun. Op is talking about regular normal posts and comments.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

That's totally fair. I guess I have a hard time imaging anyone caring about downvotes so I assumed it had to be something like what I described.