Fediverse@lemmy.worldbyFoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
17 days

If you are coming from Reddit: YSK that Lemmy and Piefed have no karma. Don't delete your posts.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54923731

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.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      16 days

      karma is heavily abused by botters, spammers, and used as an excuse by reddit/mods to filter out people they dont like.

    • atro_city@fedia.io
      17 days

      I’ve deleted multiple posts for different reasons:

      • answers were crap (mostly offtopic, missing the point, simply attacking me instead of the question, etc.)
      • mbin doesn’t support muting notifications from topics, so I’d just keep getting them, so it was simpler to delete than wait for people to stop talking
      • I got my answers and it wasn’t that important

      I don’t give 2 shits about “points”. You could make this the most downvoted comment on the planet and I would leave it up (if I didn’t get notifications)

    • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
      17 days

      I get that but there’s also a certain “ugh” when a bunch of .ml folks find a post and want to yell at you about it.

        • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
          17 days

          For sure. But it’s just tiring to get notifications for hours of someone yelling about shit libs or something.

          • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
            17 days

            That’s a different situation though. Getting dogpiled isn’t fun. Op is talking about regular normal posts and comments.

            • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
              17 days

              That’s totally fair. I guess I have a hard time imaging anyone caring about downvotes so I assumed it had to be something like what I described.

      • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        17 days

        Sometimes down votes are a sign that you’re saying things people don’t want to hear or the right things but on a crazy instance, but sometimes down votes are a chance for self reflection where you have to ask yourself “Am I the asshole?” and in the latter case yeah I’m probably just going to delete it. No apologies though, I’m not looking to be a saint here.