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.

  • arcine@jlai.lu
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    1 day ago

    That’s why people delete their posts on reddit ?

    I delete mine because I get tired of the negative comments 😂 I never understood karma.

  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
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    12 days ago

    And if you come from Reddit where people can’t ignore a comment with a different opinion and have to down vote it, please don’t do that here. We don’t need that negativity.

  • auzy1@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    One of the admins on a previous lemmy server I was on absolutely cheesed me off (also, I donated to that server).

    So, I deleted my posts to stop the server getting attention, especially a few of them were actively supporting the network

    The admin was defending an absolute nutter who was admin on another server who was trying to shut down any opinions and discussions.

    The rest of the admins were awesome, but after seeing that, it just felt weird to support them.

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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    12 days ago

    Mbin does have karma however. So it’s not like it doesn’t exist at all on the fediverse. Your karma is 1645 for me btw, though obviously depends on the posts of yours that have been federated to my instance.

    Also, this isn’t entirely correct about Piefed. It does actually have a karma system, it’s just based on your up-/downvote ratio, not a number that ticks up endlessly. Some instances like piefed.social also have a hidden karma system that penalizes you for what it considers bad behavior iirc.

    • silly_goose@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Mbin does have karma however

      TIL. that’s quite interesting.

      this isn’t entirely correct about Piefed. It does actually have a karma system,

      I’m talking about reddit-like karma system that is based on up/downvotes you have recieved on all your existing posts and comments. This is the kind that encourages you to delete downvoted posts to boost your karma.

      • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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        12 days ago

        Right, I forgot the Piefed system is about votes you give out while the Reddit system is the opposite, votes you receive. I mean I did remember, but I forgot to use my critical reasoning there and notice the mismatch.

      • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        Well when you’re down voted on reddit they attack you and make you feel some kind of an odd sense of shame because of the hive mind that if you don’t show conformity to, you’re the odd man out and therefore, down voted to shit and nothing you say reached anyone because your comment gets hidden after being down voted enough times that it makes you feel like what’s the point of even keeping it up if no one’s ever gonna see it unless they get curious enough to click it to view the comment you wrote which might even have more value to the conversation going off the central point of the main question op asked, than you could imagine and again it makes you wonder why did I fucking even if no one gives a fuck to the point where what you said gets hidden. Not removed, hidden. That hurts.

        So over time reddit culture teaches people to inadvertently delete posts when they feel as though they have no value and it sticks with people. That’s why people delete posts. Is the unconscious muscle memory of deleting something they don’t think anyone will care about.

        Maybe it’s about the karma for some people but to me if what to say has no value to the people I am trying to reach then I will remove it. Period.

  • TBi@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I had some posts get downvoted for some stupid reason. So I just deleted them.

    I thought my posts were well thought out nuanced takes on the current topic. But anyway. I’ll delete any post that gets downvoting for some unknown(to me) reason.

    Including this one.

    • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Is because you are molded and shaped by the community, so you don’t want anything that is against it left online.

  • Starik@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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    12 days ago

    Some communities are banning users for getting into mundane arguments with other commenters.

  • nevyn@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    If you are coming from reddit, how do you get your lemmy feed to stay as ‘subscribed’ instead of it always reverting back to ‘all’ (aka a pile of rubbish just like reddit)?

  • Art3mis@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    You can tell when a troll is from reddit because they will spam your comment history with downvotes as if it matters at all here.

  • nullify3112@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    goes on a comment binge at 1:30am

    wakes up to 20 replies in the notifications at 7:30am

    what have I done??

    can’t deal with other people’s judgement today

    deletes all that shit