Why are most of the posts here heavily downvoted?
Why are most of the posts here heavily downvoted?
Why would you visit the "conservative" section just to downvote everything? I don't get it.
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Because conservatism is a dog whistle for cartoon villainry.
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I did a quick scan and the more misleading and fear mongering posts are downvoted, the news type posts seem upvoted.
Maybe be specific in asking which posts you're concerned about getting down votes? Otherwise I'm going with my general answer here.
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Everything isn't downvoted. Sort this community by upvotes and you'll see there are a handful that are positive. You can do the same with the people who post here. Go to their history and sort by most positive. All of them have positive comments and posts.
It's the content that's being downvoted. Not the community or the users.
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Yeah, it's deliberate. On the lemmy.world version of this sub, every time I would post a conservative story, another user would post something progressive, and then my post would get buried and no one would ever see it or interact with it. Why post if no one ever sees it?
I started this sub to get around that, literally so people would see the conservative posts and talk about them. Sometimes you learn something, sometimes it forces you to actually research your position, sometimes you see another slapfight. Much better than nothing.
If you want to start a sub of your own, just be warned, modding is filled with horrible judgement calls, and until you figure it out, you will fuck it up constantly.
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@McLoud I get the impression that this community is mostly left wingers either angrily downvoting posts, angrily downvoting comments, or angrily replying to the right wing/far right articles that get posted here. I kinda get an r/AskTrumpSupporters vibe from this community, with the exception that the right wingers here seem to be markedly more intelligent.
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Did you ever consider the possibility that anger is the appropriate response to certain situations? For example, if someone passed a law that prevented you from receiving medical care, that would warrant anger.
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@morphballganon Yes. The thing is, most of the posts her are not about medical care.
If we go to the community, the posts on the homepage are about:
A #Muslim terrorist murdering a cop in #Germany: https://lemm.ee/post/33713396
A man getting exonerated for raping a child after he says it's part of his ethnic culture: https://lemm.ee/post/33546099
JoeBiden signing an executive order to limit migration into the #USA: https://lemm.ee/post/33589787
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Let me ask you the same question. What do you think is the reason in your opinion ? Not starting a fight here, just want to know what you think.
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Because lemmy is small, so the natural brigading that comes from everyone being able to see all the posts means smaller/unpopular communities will have these natural downvote noise. I see this in monero, linus tech tips, communities all the time. There are people with a axe to grind, and rather then blocking a community they just want to be negative. it brings them joy, so be it.
Lemmy would benefit from community tools, like requiring participation before votes count, or posting karma, etc.
Growing small communities should be a priority for lemmy
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I downvote posts if they're idiotic.
Communities about idiotic ideologies tend to attract idiotic posts.