If a niche community has people that persistently downvote every post
- is that healthy for the community?
- is that healthy for lemmy in general?
Examples that come to mind are political communities, linus tech tips, diet communities, etc. There will be a group of people who will not make comments, posts, but will strictly downvote everything that is in the community.
This is a continuation of a discussion @Blaze@feddit.org and I started elsewhere, but it deserves it’s own space for meta-moderation discussion.
Right now I don’t think I’m dealing with anything super malicious just the standard:
Unhappy Camper
Nah, it looks more like you run a contentious community and are playing shocked that people who you know disagree with you downvote your posts when they see them in all. And some posts have 0.
Some might even just dislike the food presented, like the boiled in butter video.
And to be clear I am far from a vegan, I really like to sautée vegetables* in butter. I don’t need meat for that to be good, but meat and vegetables are so much better prepared in a meal together. Also too-tall burgers that need to be deconstructed are a failure.
*= recently found out even celery and radishes are good this way, much better than raw