I've never posted in the community, just found out about the community today. 👀
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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There's been a few discussions about this, you are probably downvoting AI posts and if it's a pattern (just downvotes without anything else) they see it as non-constructive participation and ban you.
Not saying I completely agree, but I get where they are coming from. Communities should be free from drive-by downvotes, no matter the subject. Even stuff I hate should get a community, it's up to me to ignore it
i never understood why folks get so anal about downvoting. if I don’t like it, I downvote. it’s my vote. if it’s a “rule” to only downvote people who don’t participate “properly” instead of people you disagree with.. I’m downvoting the rule.
if a community can’t handle the “risk” inherent with people disagreeing with them on the internet then they should realize they are not ready for the internet.
shit... I reply about some stuff and let folks know I’m a leftist and … instant downvotes. hrm. 😂🤷♂️
i'm banned from a lot of these communities i've discovered. i don't do downvotes of relevant posts in their own communities, i just block such communities, so it will also be based on comment content it seems.
If they live by what they preach they'll be modding via AI.
i've considered this as what's going on
What about based on being a mod of certain communities? ;)
decent chance lol. but i didn't ask for this either. it's like there's an internet civil war and i got a side assigned to me. i'm not switching sides, i got sorted right, but it's weird to me, an internet old head
The instance I'm on completely ignores downvotes. They just aren't a thing. An upvote is an upvote. A downvote is... nothing. It's a nice compromise. :)
Yeah I like this, it makes karma farming less plausible too. Although imo they should remove all public visibility of votes and just leave the algo to work behind the scenes
There is no algo. Voting is a social action. Fuck the hypothetical algo.
As a lemmy veteran, you should know better: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Call it what you want, it's math to sort posts and comments.
Edit: even better link: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
That's not what is usually meant by that. We had sorting and ranking for literally centuries before what is currently referred to as "the algorithm" on proprietary platforms. But I now understand what was meant, and that it wasn't important to your point.
hot, active, new, top, and controversial are all algorithms
Yes, assuming that they actually do anything at all, one could call them algorithms. But they are not what is colloquially called "the algorithm."
But I have never downvoted AI posts in the community, and I just found out about the community today. My guess is because of my stance on Anti Big Tech AI
It can be, an admin could double check I guess but I don't think it's worth finding out.
I blocked them early btw, so I don't even see them :P
What is "drive by downvotes" exactly?