• @Arelin@lemmy.zip
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    21 year ago

    That is absolutely not how Lemmy works. Downvoting has no effect whatsoever.

    I assume you’re talking about the ‘active’ and ‘hot’ sorting?

    From the Lemmy docs:

    • Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
    • Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.

    You’d also notice this if you use Lemmy for any length of time lmao

    • Flying Squid
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      -21 year ago

      You know what’s weird? What’s weird is that, despite your claim that people aren’t having discussions with people who get downvoted, my reply to you was part of a huge amount of discussion with someone who was downvoted. And that is true of multiple other discussions in this post.

      Is this post special? Is it the exception?

      • @Arelin@lemmy.zip
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        21 year ago

        Is this post special? Is it the exception?

        I am the exception because I keep the less visibility thing in mind

        • Flying Squid
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          -21 year ago

          That does not explain why this post contradicts your claim multiple times, but your massive ego is noted.

          • @AlDente@sh.itjust.works
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            21 year ago

            Look, with nearly 100 comments a day, we realize that no amount of downvotes is going to silence you from commenting in every post. However, for us mere mortals, can you not see how a dogpile of downvotes from the local majority opinion might dissuade some individuals from wanting to engage in discussion?

            • Flying Squid
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              11 year ago

              Nope. I don’t see why it matters when it didn’t even matter on Reddit except that comments with enough downvotes were hidden. They aren’t hidden here.

              • @AlDente@sh.itjust.works
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                21 year ago

                It’s clearly psychological. It’s not that it quantitatively “matters.” I suspect very few people are going around using the downvote button with the intent of statistically decreasing the view count of a particular comment. On these politically charged posts, it’s used as a litmus test for whether or not you are part of the ‘right side’ or ‘the other side.’