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.

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[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes down votes are a sign that you're saying things people don't want to hear or the right things but on a crazy instance, but sometimes down votes are a chance for self reflection where you have to ask yourself "Am I the asshole?" and in the latter case yeah I'm probably just going to delete it. No apologies though, I'm not looking to be a saint here.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah like that time I commented on horshoe theory on a tankie sublemmy (honestly my fault. That's like smoking next to the pump at a gas station) which really pissed off a lot of tankies lol.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You didn't consider how Russia/China would feel before commenting on .ml? Absolutely scandalous.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

For more context, my comment was making fun of how both fascists and tankies will line people up against a wall and shoot them for being the out group.

The vitriol I experienced lead me to believe that if it wouldn't have explicitly proved my point for me, they would have threatened to line me up against a wall and shoot me for being the outgroup lmao!

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't even take that. Sometimes it just takes one opinion literally anywhere that one tankie sees that hurts their feelings, and they brigade away. It's totally random. I've enjoyed them doing that on shitposts and memes on sub's totally unrelated to .ml madness.

It also makes me think that there's only actually like 10 or 20 tankies that each cycle through 30 accounts each, and one guy in Beijing that runs the "Propaganda: Other Platforms" desk coordinating of all. Or maybe that's just a function of their groupthink. Hard to say.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm still new to Lemmy but yeah I've noticed that too. They show up anywhere they see stuff they don't like.

What's kind of fun is you can basically summon them by saying "Trotsky wouldn't have been better than Stalin" three times in a mirror.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

"Numbers, math, measures, and money were all independently invented my numerous civilizations because they are all usefull things."

[–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, that's a skill issue on your side.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah I'm new here if it wasn't obvious by my prior comment haha