How can we make it more popular?

  • Digitalprimate@lemmy.world
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    More upvoting of posts.

    I know that sounds a bit dumb/lame, but when I first got here and every post had like 5 upvotes, maybe 20 and then maybe once a week you’d see one with more than 100, it was jarring. Made the place feel empty and without interaction. Which it’s really not, but that was my and I think perhaps a lot of peoples’ first impression.

    • Chunk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      1000x rule.

      10% of users have an account.

      10% of accounts vote.

      10% of voters comment.

      By commenting, you are leaving an impact on the site worth 1000 users.

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There’s also a trend of downvoting things ‘just because’. Not sure if it’s bots or just users who are trying to cater their feed by downvoting things they don’t like. But if people just blind downvote with no engagement, I feel like it discourages people from posting. This place needs to be more hospitable than StackOverflow.

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        1 year ago

        My personal rule on here and the other site has always been that I only downvote spam, misinformation, and actively malicious posts

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        1 year ago

        I think it’s bots or trolls because what I’ve seen downvoted has been on topic, friendly conversations and had been just posted. There would be no reason to downvote a lot of the comments downvoted.

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          I think it’s bots because of just how quickly a post gets nuked. Like, there’s no way that many people even read the post and suddenly you’ve got 50 downvotes. There’s just no way that many people read what I said, processed it, and decided it was so terrible it needed to be downvoted.

          One of the reasons I’m happy to be back on lotide, I don’t even see the votes for anything but posts.

    • TrustingZebra@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      I don’t care much about upvotes, but about activities. Most posts on Lemmy have little to no comments.

    • alcamtar@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Great point. To see if its worth joining a community I check how many posts it has, and then look at the posts to see if anyone actually reads them (votes). Too little activity its not worth wasting my time. i already have too many communities subscribed as it is.