Just venting here. It’s a very low traffic community for a sports team, with announcements from that team’s own website posted to the community. And people have to come in and vote it down. 😐

    • ericjmorey@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Downvotes change the visibility of posts. If I’m subscribed to a community and non-subscribers are making it less likely that I’ll see the very relevant post to the community I’m subscribed to, that’s not meaningless, it’s censorship.

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    1 year ago

    Likely what is happening is the post is getting to all and non sportsball people down vote it.

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    1 year ago

    I just don’t get some people, making a post to complain about downvotes.

    Maybe post things people want to read?

    And yes, know that this has reached me, the community will be blocked, as will this user.

    • ericjmorey@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They posted something that subscribers to the community would want to see and a bunch of other thought less people are try to make it less visible to the subscribers.

      Downvotes are meaningful to visibility.