There are entire communities full of bad faith actors, spammers, and echo-chamber-enforcing mods. We as individual users downvote them with 0 effect. We can block and hide users/communities/instances but that does nothing for the community as a whole. Ignoring them and “not feeding the trolls” is simply not making them go away. Just try blocking UniversalMonk, we all know they have dozens of accounts with hundreds of downvotes across every comment and post and yet they keep going. Or any of the conservative communities who’s total post score is in the red.
I’ve blocked so much garbage that my feed doesn’t change very often. I barely check Lemmy once a day now. This does not make for a healthy online community.
Many of us came from reddit where there are many valid complaints for how they run things but one thing I’d like to see return is downvotes slowing down how often a user can post, comment, and vote in a community. If a single user’s score drops too low within an instance or community, that user should be rate limited or maybe even auto-banned or maybe an entire third option I can’t think of. But right now it’s not even a slap on the wrist.
So you want this to be an echo chamber? Oh and by someone else’s count, I have over 45,000 downvotes. I even put it in my profile.
All I do is post news articles that you don’t like. I don’t advocate violence. I don’t advocate any illegal activities. I don’t even advocate anything radical.
I post shit from Daily Mail and you want me permabanned. LMAO
Ignore and move on.
I’m not going anywhere, friend. I won’t go away.
The fediverse is about diversity of thought AND opinion. And it’s awesome.
Oh and if you really want a “don’t feed the trolls” situation, maybe try not to start a fucking thread about me and give me a name shoutout in it! Thanks, amiko!
Talk about Streisand effect. I’ve never heard of you before but your “about” page and this comment look rather fun and enjoyable.
Right?
Happens every time someone gets so mad that they decide to create an entire thread about me. And they always throw in some variation of “don’t feed the troll.”
Ok,this is feeding me. To stop feeding me, people shouldn’t argue with me and/or start threads about me.
Like wtf, mate!? Lmao
Literally the solution to every single ‘THERE IS SOMETHING I DISLIKE ABOUT LEMMY AND THUS YOU SHOULD ALL ACCOMODATE ME!’ post.
If you don’t like someone’s shit, block them. There’s not a limit of how many people who make you upset you can block, so go hog wild.
Agreed!!
I apparently have a much easier and happier time blocking people than my critics do. Lol