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.
Get rid of the voting system. It is a blight carried over from commercial social media.
Then how do you find good posts?
Have up/down votes, just don’t make the count visible.
And have it change the sort order instead of collapsing them
View count & comment count might be enough. Not saying I advocate for that, just trying to think of alternatives.