Yea for sure
I believe most "vote manipulation" bans aren’t really on that case though
It’s mostly "you strongly disagree with us? Fuck you!"
Your voice matters. Downvoting can be useful to prevent echo chambers (ex: downvoting lemmy.ml bs)
Now if the thing is just not fundamentally wrong like it’s just subjective and you don’t like it, yea it could harm, but the most likely is that less people will do it than people liking this type of content will upvote
Its only really problematic on smaller instances or if you do it continuously for every single post without a good valid reason
settings -> block instance
And then your life will be a bit better
any instance admin can see all upvotes/downvotes on any message from the web UI
the whole "if you don't like the content, don't downvote, but just ignore / block it" is really cringe
It's going to be okay
keep calm and go fuck yourself
Nintendo*
Giving edit access to top tier shitposters
would've been better from the start indeed but it's not that clickbait
it was the name of the original article
I forgot what it was referring to and searched a bit
https://web.archive.org/web/20060212043925/http://www.bash.org/?244321
we made climate change which is even more effective
To each their own I guess
Downvoting posts in the All feed isn’t that bad, as it reduces their visibility if you believe it doesn’t interest you at all and probably ~~most~~ won’t interest many other people, so you let a chance to other posts to show up
Edit: typo