If a niche community has people that persistently downvote every post

  1. is that healthy for the community?
  2. is that healthy for lemmy in general?

Examples that come to mind are political communities, linus tech tips, diet communities, etc. There will be a group of people who will not make comments, posts, but will strictly downvote everything that is in the community.

This is a continuation of a discussion @[email protected] and I started elsewhere, but it deserves it’s own space for meta-moderation discussion.

  • jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    People who run instances can see the votes already, so we can automate some possible solutions now.

    Thanks for the reference to the previous discussion, I had no idea.

    One possible response to this would be a slashdot style system where you only get a few downvotes randomly assigned in a interval, so you have to be choosy with them.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      17 hours ago

      People who run instances can see the votes already, so we can automate some possible solutions now.

      It’s definitely doable, that would probably help a few mods.

      One possible response to this would be a slashdot style system where you only get a few downvotes randomly assigned in a interval, so you have to be choosy with them.

      Indeed