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 @[email protected] and I started elsewhere, but it deserves it’s own space for meta-moderation discussion.
My idea is requiring a user to have X amount of posts in a community before they can downvote posts in said community.
I’m not sure about posts. Comments maybe, but there are a lot of people who will only comment and never post, and that’s okay.
Yeah you’re right, should be comments rather than posts.