If you truly prefer 2 then you wouldn't automatically ban people for downvoting posts in your communities.
I'm quoting the mod's comment to OP from the image on this post in reference to your quote above.
Downvoting literally every comment would be a lot more work and is a pretty dumb move.
Yet that's exactly what OP is stated to have done by the mod.
Thanks! Thats vaguely what I remember from the gulf war timeframe. I think we got cable a couple years after that.
If it is all misinformation and I want to reduce its visibility
You could block it. That would reduce your visibility to it completely.
Rather - you downvoted every post and comment in the community so its not a good fit
You don't downvote comments from All, do you? Wouldn't that require you to go into the post and actively downvote them one by one?
The mod message clearly says it wasn't because of an opposing viewpoint but was for mass downvoting.
You go into a community you already disagree with you're going to see a lot of comments you disagree with too. Mass downvoting isn't engagement. Perhaps instead of downvoting all those posts, OP could have responded to them with their opposing view and actual engaged with the opposition like they did in the one referenced post.
We do and I feel like you do. That's why that community used to bug me so much.
I learned first hand that having a pit or pit mix is a lot different and they take a very patient owner and consistent method of training.
When was this? The one I used to see in All got new moderation (the mod being discussed) who introduced, what I thought, were reasonable rules to encourage actual discourse.
I get what you're saying about it before but, assuming they're being fairly enforced, I assume it's got to be better there now.
And there's an argument to be made that a single sentence stating an opinion with no rationale or justification doesn't add to the conversation.
But let's be honest, whatever "etiquette" may be, people here vote how they want, for whatever reason they want.
If it matters that much to you then you might prefer an instance where downvotes are disabled. Or, if you use an app, find one, like Voyager, that allows you to turn vote visibility off.
Why worry so much about someone who downvotes and won't engage in discussion with you about what they downvoted?
Opinions can be unpopular. Complaining about downvotes is as unpopular on Lemmy as it was on Reddit, if not more.
Hey, I have a little grey in my beard!
As someone who was only just alive in 1985 though, I'm curious where you were in the US in 1985 and if you remember how big or widespread the news coverage was on the MOVE bombing?
To clarify, are you saying you believe that long-lasting condensation trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are actually "chemtrails" consisting of chemical or biological agents, sprayed for nefarious purposes undisclosed to the general public?