Why would you visit the “conservative” section just to downvote everything? I don’t get it.
I downvote posts if they’re idiotic.
Communities about idiotic ideologies tend to attract idiotic posts.
Because conservatism is a dog whistle for cartoon villainry.
I’d guess most voting come from people browsing all communities. That’s how I found your post.
I did a quick scan and the more misleading and fear mongering posts are downvoted, the news type posts seem upvoted.
Maybe be specific in asking which posts you’re concerned about getting down votes? Otherwise I’m going with my general answer here.
Everything isn’t downvoted. Sort this community by upvotes and you’ll see there are a handful that are positive. You can do the same with the people who post here. Go to their history and sort by most positive. All of them have positive comments and posts.
It’s the content that’s being downvoted. Not the community or the users.
I think it has to do with the fact that most of the activity comes from non-conservatives, but mods have enacted a rule that all posts must be conservative with a pro-conservative bias and conservative source.
This means dissent can only happen in the form of downvotes/comments. IMO it’s a deliberate way of structuring the community to have this exact view to newcomers, anything not conservative is framed as reactionary.
I would much rather an askaconservative-like place where good faith discussions are more prevalent, but alas that is asking too much.
@McLoud I get the impression that this community is mostly left wingers either angrily downvoting posts, angrily downvoting comments, or angrily replying to the right wing/far right articles that get posted here. I kinda get an r/AskTrumpSupporters vibe from this community, with the exception that the right wingers here seem to be markedly more intelligent.
Did you ever consider the possibility that anger is the appropriate response to certain situations? For example, if someone passed a law that prevented you from receiving medical care, that would warrant anger.
@morphballganon Yes. The thing is, most of the posts her are not about medical care.
If we go to the community, the posts on the homepage are about:
A #Muslim terrorist murdering a cop in #Germany: https://lemm.ee/post/33713396
A man getting exonerated for raping a child after he says it’s part of his ethnic culture: https://lemm.ee/post/33546099
#JoeBiden signing an executive order to limit migration into the #USA: https://lemm.ee/post/33589787
@morphballganon Many of these things might make people mad, sure, but the people replying in this community seem more mad that these things are getting reported than that these things are happening.
Perhaps they were downvoted for being off-topic.
@morphballganon If they were, that would make no sense
Because lemmy is small, so the natural brigading that comes from everyone being able to see all the posts means smaller/unpopular communities will have these natural downvote noise. I see this in monero, linus tech tips, communities all the time. There are people with a axe to grind, and rather then blocking a community they just want to be negative. it brings them joy, so be it.
Lemmy would benefit from community tools, like requiring participation before votes count, or posting karma, etc.
Growing small communities should be a priority for lemmy
The problem is some of the smaller groups are the more interesting groups. Most of the news groups are nothing more than echo chambers. I love reading the self hosting forum. Seems like there is some good discussions in there.
They hate you and want you to die.
