Really loving the new experiences here on Lemmy.one. But I’m seeing many subs with off-topic posts. Community downvotes will help overworked mods find and remove such posts. I understand no one likes to be downvoted but it’s a necessary tool for our community and only helps users understand and refine what and where they are to be posting their content.
And not having dog-piling leads to reverse dogpiling, where only those with the resources/know how to have a botnet army surreptitiously upvote all other comments achieves the same thing.
You haven’t gotten rid of the problem, you’ve just removed your own and other average users’ ability to participate in the solution.
Wouldn’t those other bots also downvote if they could anyway?
They probably don’t mind upvote brigading/dog-piling as much because it makes them feel good.
Only positive feelings are just as toxic as only negative ones.
Human experience exists on the full scale. To cut out parts we don’t like causes active harm to ourselves, others, and communities