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  • i usually read all and i’ve never seen a boring company comm on my front page….
    but “the lemmy way” is supposed to be: downvote if off-topic, spam or trolling, or some such, up vote if you like it…
    not downvote if you disagree… lemmy is just too small for that at this point.
    there are a lot of unpopular communities that deserve to exist that would be obliterated if everyone that hates them voted their posts down.
    If you hate a community that shows up, just block that one community and it’s gone for you.
    you can block entire instances for yourself….
    i don’t think it should be allowed to exist at all, as the owner did the whole sieg heil salute and a bunch of other nazi stuff… but that’s an issue to take up with the instance, and i encourage you to do so and i’ll write them myself….
    but in general, banning someone who only downvotes, downvotes “good” posts that should be on the community, makes complete sense.



  • this is “downvote trolling”….
    basically if you have a community that a lot of people hate, people will come in and downvote everything… some will even subscribe and downvote everything.
    so, obviously “the boring company” will get a lot of musk hate (and i hate musk).
    but yeah, if someone never participates in a comm and just shows up to downvote totally on-topic posts it makes sense to ban them….

    i’ve been permanently shadowbanned from communities i totally liked and agreed with for making a comment that reasonably stated a disagreement with a post… banning for downvote trolling makes sense… even though i do hate Elon Musk….
    (the whole boring company community should be deleted because it’s a company owned by a literal Nazi).