Preface: Love this instance, happy to be here and this isnt a complaint just an observation.

OK so I mod a few communities across several instances, big and small. 3 on this very instance, I have noticed a pattern that posts on this instance tend to get a consistent early downvote count.

This might be my bad observations or the type of posts I see so I’d love to hear if anyone else has noticed the same.

  • spidervl@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    it’s still mildly-infuriating to see obviously innocuous/irreverent posts/comments being dogpiled

    I think early downvoters are just trying to induce others to follow them because they’re assholes and have nothing better to do. Unfortunately, it’s pretty common with both Reddit and Lemmy.

    • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It seems to be more prevalent on lemmy - if the post or comment gets 3 or 4 downvotes before it even gains traction, then it’s dogpiled.

      You can see it irl yourself. Post the same comment in a different thread (within the same post!), and watch the difference.

      • spidervl@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        It seems to be more prevalent on lemmy

        I’ve noticed this with the two largest Lemmy instances – .ml and .world.

        • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          4 months ago

          I don’t mod any communities but I do put in the effort to curate my “All” feed and most of the users & communities I block come from those 2 instances. Toss hexbear on there and that’s almost 100%.

          The .world is tricky bc it is such a large instance and that’s where many new lemmings land so it’s always going to be messy.

          I still have my world account but never use it. I prefer being part of db0.