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.
also, be aware that some instances don’t “do” downvotes at all, so some of us can’t see them. (This post has 44 upvotes as far as I can see. if it also has 100 downvotes, I can’t see them.)
ETA: now it’s up to
7099.At this writing it has 91 up and one down.
I only see 64 up and none down.
Lemmy.World, where this is posted, doesn’t hide downvotes. However, federation between instances can sometimes not show the accurate vote totals and will be different depending on where you’re viewing it from.
SPECULATOR sees 64 up 0 down; I only see 62 up but also 0 down. 🤷♂️