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.
the disagree button is a common argument on lemmy. you just can’t get rid of it as it is so much easier, than writing a comment.
just ignore it, if people use it to disagree. its just some stupid internet points - which don’t even get summed up (as OP mentioned)
Isn’t the upvote and downvote buttons intended for good and bad quality of the comments? A comment can have high quality and provide something to the discussion even if most people disagree with it.
Up and down votes, no matter what their “intention” is, will have a different meaning for each person that uses them. There is no way to create a universal use for something so arbitrary. Someone will down vote, and the person downvoted will never know why (unless there is a comment of course). That is the nature of the feature. It’s not a flaw or a bug, it’s human. I know lemmy has a lot of tech nerds that are very logical (myself included) but we are still human
Generally a high vote count is supposed to be primarily used to tell a user that:
Usually, a low negative vote count is supposed to mean:
It shoupd be noted that “factually true/false” does not mean “I think this or that” or “this isnt that because,” it means “this is wrong and here is the verifiable source link.” The conversations where votes tend to most often break these general points are political or emotional in nature, where a “factual truth may not exist for both sides or multiple different truths exist (ie, political ideologies ignoring something from ‘the other side’),” rather than something like scientific discussion where there is only one singular factual truth on a matter.
Of course, these have become so diluted now that negative votes on a comment could mean anything from “I dont agree with this users politics and didn’t read past the first sentence before voting” to “this comment was already downvoted when I got here so I just downvoted it again without reading what it says because everyone else must be right.”