They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

Then they are unfit to be moderators because they are subtracting value from free discussions. I would much rather have to little moderation than lazy heavy handed moderation.

Unpopular opinions deserve to be silenced? Terrible idea. We already have way too much group think.

One of the things I miss about reddit (and slashdot before that) was that if you got downvoted/downmodded a lot in a short amount of time, it would tell you to slow down

That was a horrible system. If you didn’t get positive karma on your very first post, your account was ruined because you could never dig yourself out.

It’s not about being elitist.

What’s the difference? They shouldn’t be doing it.

when is the last time you came across a post on Lemmy that is specifically for/about women or women’s issues

The same amount of time I came across a post that is about men’s issues. A really long time. The vast majority of comments should not be about identity politics, unless it is a feature of the specific community.

Does that feel good?

I just want the absolute value of my comment’s karma to be high. That means it has been read at least that many times.

You mean the exact same stuff that’s on Reddit, often copied directly from Reddit?

No. We mean all the stuff that Lemmy gets that Reddit either doesn’t get at all or gets a day later than Lemmy.

“Trump bad! Look at this latest bad thing Elong did!” posts a day is not quality content

This bad thing that Trump did looks like very worthwhile content.

https://lemmy.world/post/26990437

Give it another year or two and we’ll have some website that tallies the karma of lemmy users. Clout is an insidious disease that grows like a social cancer.

It has already happened with this piece of cancer.

https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

Find people who have low karma

When someone is consistently getting downvoted it’s likely they are a problem. PieFed provides a list of accounts with low karma, sorted by lowest first. Clicking on their user name takes you to their profile which shows all their posts and comments in one place. Every profile has “Ban” and “Ban + Purge” buttons that have instance-wide effects and are only visible to admins.