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.
How can you unilateral determine what the down vote means for everyone? I think most interpret it to mean either they disagree, or that they don’t like what you said. Most people don’t think everything they don’t like should be deleted. That’s called an echo chamber
No im not determining anything unilaterally, just when i read about downvotes that seems to be the idea behind it. Downvote something that doesn’t contribute to the discussion so it goes to the bottom of the list and fewer people see it, in other words deletion by position on the page. At least when i get downvoted a lot i usually barely remember making the comment and i just delete because it’s nonsense.
There is nothing to suggest this. Some people may interpret it this way, many will not. It’s absurd to say why someone would be downvoting, or how the other would interpret it, when this thread alone has like 5 other examples of what a downvote means. The only thing that can be definitively stated is that downvoting will moving the comment/post further down in the default listing.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Exactly, deletion by positioning. Downvote makes it so fewer people will see it, so yes if someone gets downvoted that means someone thinks your comment isn’t worth seeing.