Old habits die hard, but there’s Reddiquette which needs to be revived, and some which needs to die.

Many “golden-age” redditors remember a time when downvoting was reserved for hostility, not a different opinion. For the sake of our growing community I would like to implore everyone to be awesome to each other.

However, this place is not Reddit.

  • We don’t measure in bananas here.
  • We don’t need to append “edit: typo” to edited posts and comments.
  • if you see something which is worthy of a downvote: down vote and move on! Don’t engage with it and feed the algorithm/engament machine so other people are exposed to it when sorting by active.
  • Generator@lemmy.pt
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    1 year ago

    I’m an old age redditor, and that was may reddiquette, “don’t downvote just because you don’t like the topic, maybe other people find it interesting”.

    Mostly I don’t downvote at all, only on some rude or spam posts.

    Reddit just become something where everyone downvote everything for no reason, even if just say “OK” ou “that’s cool”!
    On Lemmy (ate least for now), not so much or I don’t see it.

    If you see a post “orange is the best color”, don’t downvote just because you don’t like orange, leave a comment and express your opinion instead

    PS: There’s an old Reddiquette song, the same can be applied to fediverse
    https://youtu.be/4fLpktf2jYw

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      Downvoting breeds toxicity. It’s regrettable that we are wired to feel validated and rejected by numbers, but if we admit that, we should understand that unnecessarily putting someone into the negative numbers ultimately hurts everyone.

      I really want Lemmy to cultivate a community which epitomises virtues of civility. Reserve down votes for uncivil behaviour.

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        Seems like kinda a toxic way to start that. Why are you trying to dictate who should post what and how they do it? Maybe someone wants to measure in bananas. Maybe someone wants to clarify their edit. I don’t see the point of the post if you’re not looking to tease out anything but an unnatural result.

        Lemmy will be whatever the humans that make it will be.

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          This reply triggered an unhealthy emotional reaction in me. I interpret the tone as accusatory and leaves little room for a charitable interpretation of what I said. I don’t feel like I can respond to your criticism without arguing.