Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.

  • SpaceCowboy
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    2 days ago

    It’s not about blocking, it’s about sending a message.

    • Ace T'Ken
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      2 days ago

      No, sometimes it is about blocking.

      If you run a small community like several of us do, even a small amount of downvotes can completely shut down a discussion from ever being seen by anyone else. It’s a way petty assholes have of trying to kill conversation in small communities because they don’t like something about what you said or how you said it.

      If someone neither wants to contribute nor lurk, and merely drag down a community, they shouldn’t be allowed to continue to be a part of it at all.

      • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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        1 day ago

        I understand that if you are exploring on all and so, sometimes some communities you couldn’t care less appear on the feed, it’s happens all the time to me with sports news and related, but I just block them and move on.

        • Ace T'Ken
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          23 hours ago

          Yeah, that’s what I do as well. Seems much nicer than hurting their community by just randomly downvoting everything I don’t want to see.