Hey, this looks familiar. :)
The best way that anyone here can help:
if you are an instance admin, to install it and connect with your instance.
if you still have an account on Reddit, to sign up to either https://portal.alien.top or https://fediverser.network, find all the subreddits you are interested in and apply for the "community ambassador".
So it is a way for Lemmy instances to let people log in with their Reddit accounts? Neat
That, and to let people get auto subscribed to all the communities that are corresponding to the redditor subscribed subreddits. It solves the onboarding problem completely.
Once again, @catloaf@lemm.ee is to be found on the list of downvoters. So, it's not just what I say or do, even when someone else talks about my project, they are there.
Seriously, what is the problem you have with me?
I have no idea who you are, so any slight against your person is purely your imagination.
I was curious, though, so I scrolled a bit on your profile. Out of over four hundred posts you've made, I saw I had downvoted three. The only comment of yours that I saw that I voted on, I upvoted.
I think the other comment about obsessiveness may be right.
Edit: and to be clear, I downvoted your comment here because it is off-topic in this post.
Thanks for bringing their instance to my attention. Their behavior is NOT ok, makes me want nothing to do with their project, and I have defederated their instance over it.
Can you please then explain why you downvoted this post?
Because OP titled it only "Fediverser" and gave essentially no further info. To borrow from reddit's FAQ: "Remember that adage about not judging a book by its cover? No one actually follows it. So choose your title carefully โ make it useful, provide context, and be descriptive." I feel that high-quality posts should be elevated, and low-quality posts should be reduced.
Modified it a bit. Never understood why reddit never allowed people to edit a title.
It's so that someone can't get a post to the front page and change it to something offensive.
I don't know if that's going to be a problem on Lemmy. Maybe in the future, if there are more users.
Ok. Thank you for clearing that up. I still think that it would be better if you wrote a comment explaining your issue with the post to give people a chance to improve it.
I downvoted your comment here because it is off-topic in this post
~~You are replying to the creator of the project this post is about. Can't get much more on-topic than that.~~
Edit: I didn't realize that they posted two top-level comments. Yeah, I definitely agree that the comment you replied to is off-topic.
At the moment of you writing this comment, the person in question had downvoted 3 of your comments and 4 of your posts over a span of months. Seems far from a pattern, but the following up and singling out of a particular user doesn't look good. I'd suggest not focusing on who likes or doesn't your content since the optics of an admin asking users the reasons for their votes is a very bad one.
That is far far from my "focus". I don't mind criticism. I don't even mind people who openly state reasons to not like me or what I am doing. My problem is what others described: downvoting without actionable feedback.
I am more used to the Hacker News style of moderation, where the mods are used to take a first course of action to (politely) point out what was "wrong" with someone's action and ask them to stop their behavior. Only unabashed repeat offenders get banned. My "calling out" was an attempt to do that, after a private message went unanswered.
FYI you're not a mod here, thank god.
I assume you'd also disagree with this? https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/112895701054913465
Oh you downvoted me because you think you'd be a great mod ๐
But you are not a mod here, thank god.
Making it seem like the person was following you around to harass downvote you, fucking dumbass.
I downvoted you then for the same reason that I am downvoting you now: because you are more interested in making personal attacks and calling names than in a productive conversation.
Also, please re-read my comment. There is an experienced moderator from a reasonably large instance saying "sometimes all that is needed is to call out bad behavior and ask people to stop it". If you don't agree with it, fine, but don't go around saying that only someone "emotionally unstable" would act this way.
In the spirit of "just ask people to stop", I'll say this: Can you please drop the needless aggression and name-calling? Let's try to assume good intentions first?
I think what you do is bad behaviour, worse than just somebody downvoting something. I have told you when i first saw you do this, but you're still doing it.
What i say about you is what i think about you.
I have no recollection of interacting with you until yesterday, and a quick search is showing you only calling me creepy in a response to someone else because I called out two other commenters who, yes, were pretty much downvoting everything in a discussion about moving away from lemmy.ml.
Then and now, you are responding to something you don't like and you are resorting to make it personal (calling names, making value judgments) instead of making it about the behavior ("hey, why are you doing X? Can you please stop it?"). Do you understand the difference?
I adressed your behaviour, f.e. your attempt to create a false impression of their downvote behaviour to make yourself look more reasonable, before i called you a dumbass. But i get it, you'd rather let that one slide.
I'll definitely keep chiming when you pull this in the future, as i don't think your self righteous ass will take the ratio hint.
There is no attempt at anything. The serial downvotes without any further participation is there in all types of topics. Not just with me.
I have sent a DM, four months ago, asking why. No response.
He finally answered now with an explanation. It's not what I would call the best reason for downvoting someone, and it certainly falls in the case of "not helpful for people posting to find out what is wrong with the submission", but at least it was a response.
Life goes on. You, apparently, did not. Now, instead of worrying about empty threats and your feeble attempt at intimidation, I will go enjoy my summer and continue working on my things.
Have a good one.
You might disagree with him, but no need for insults.
I think an obvious insult is nicer than trying to smear the person downvoting as some notorious downvoter with pretend "admin knowledge".
I guess you're a fan of this because they also called out your downvoters before. You are the good guys and the downvoters are the bad guys.
My problem is what others described: downvoting without actionable feedback.
This is exactly why I prefer instances that have downvotes disabled.
Yeah, I am still of the opinion that downvotes can be an important source of signal, but given the prevalence of "I don't like this, therefore I don't like you, here is my downvote", I'm starting to reconsider it.
In my ideal world we would get rid of up/downvotes and just use emoji reactions as a multi-dimensional form of evaluating content quality.
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