• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No. It doesn’t matter if, for example, one likes, let’s say Babylon 5… and posting bab5 memes to the star wars community. That’s not what that community is about, and should be taken down.

    And this is ignoring the kind of things that are absolutely awful and never appropriate

    On the other hand, let’s say I post that same Babylon 5 meme in the sci-fi community, and get downvoted because people don’t appreciate the classics any more… that should stay up.

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      1 year ago

      Nonetheless, whether it’s an inappropriately placed post or a post extolling the virtues of racism, you will downvote it in exactly the same way. There is only one kind of downvoting.

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        1 year ago

        whether it’s an inappropriately placed post or a post extolling the virtues of racism, you will downvote it in exactly the same way

        Ideally in those cases you should be reporting it for mod review, not just downvoting it.

        Also note that it’s perfectly possible that a rule-breaking post/comment gets highly upvoted, and it should be still removed. Thankfully you won’t see this here with racism, but think on off-topic content (e.g. a cute cat picture in a discussion community).