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.
Even if you’re on Reddit, deleting your post/comment because of downvotes is cowardly. Is your ego so fragile you won’t stand by your own words because of imaginary internet points?
If you have karma to burn, sure. But if you’re low-karma and an infrequent poster, a drop in karma means your comments get blocked in some communities or, worse, shadowbanned.
aren’t there karma farming communities on reddit?
never understood karma tbh. but if it is supposed to be a reputation system - its pretty weak…
Maybe? I think they keep banning them.
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I had a few heavily heavily downvoted comments on Reddit, usually just for making a joke that missed…. But I’d never delete them. Gotta own your mistakes and make up for it with quality replies
In that exact vein, I don’t appreciate an /s on a post, or a “forgot to add /s tee hee” edit. We got it, it wasn’t funny/going to be funny, let’s move on.
The main problem is that people give down votes for other opinions. They can’t go to the next post or comment without pressing the negativity button. Their ego is fragile.
But I agree with your comment.