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How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)

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Is strictly negative participation in a community healthy for lemmy? (hackertalks.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Welp, I wanted to link the most recent borderline offensive post, only to see that the newest post is nothing but offensive. I have reported it to the community moderators (one of which is the OP) to follow due process and give them a chance to right themselves. But yeah, if it isn't gone by the time the guy has made the next post and therefore should've seen the report, then I'm reporting it to the instance admins directly.

Apparently, the moderators/posters are now locking each post to prevent people from commenting. That's how you know they really add to Lemmy.