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.
People should perhaps be cautious of what they downvote. I recently posted my take on something, but said I was open to counterarguments. The responses were good and made me reconsider (though not entirely alter) my opinion. My initial take was downvoted—which feels like it is being used as a ‘disagree’ button, which is arguably not the point.
I don’t know that it is “not the point”. I’m sure there are varied expectations, and I don’t think there are clearly defined rules of what an up or down vote means exactly, but it seems they are generally accepted to be “this is a good post/comment” or “this is a bad post/comment”. I think you just got downvoted because you had a bad take. That’s OK. Shit happens.
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.
I set my lemmy client so that I can’t see downvotes, only how many upvotes… and my instance doesn’t enable downvotes as is. It changes the experience for the better imo