The behaviour baffles me a bit. If they dislike the majority of the posts in a community, why are they subscribed? Or if they are browsing by /all, why have they not blocked the community? Are they under the mistaken impression that Lemmy has an algorithm which uses downvotes as an indicator for "show me less of this"?

Has anyone else encountered a "serial downvoter" in any of their communities?

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Then you come along, a huge Bach fan. You don't mind some Classical era stuff like Mozart and Haydn, but you can't stand the Romantic era. You downvote everything I post.

Something about this would seem kind of selfish to me. Just because I don't like the Romantic era doesn't mean I should try to bend the entire !classicalmusic community to my will. My efforts would be better spent posting to or creating !baroquemusic, !romantic_era, etc.

As it happens, I happen to like both the baroque and romantic eras :)

I'll leave this here for anyone else who might be interested: !classical@lemmy.studio

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Right, but this comes down to that same discussion I alluded to but largely wanted to avoid (due to irrelevance) about whether the downvote is for disliking content, or whether it should only ever be for off-topic and spam. You're just never going to get a situation where people stop using it for content they dislike.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

You could by having different types of votes compared to the binary up/down

relevant
funny
off-topic
bad faith