Yes, there’s still scope for improvement here. Once we’ve got some of the other issues with posts resolved we will be looking at this. In the meantime, keep working that thumb 😀
Key's answer explains the root cause, but you'll find that many of the apps now deal with this for you while you're waiting for the web interface to get sorted. In fact as you're on lemmy.world you can use their alternative front end which I believe has this fix in place.
That’s why I’m so pleased that Liftoff! only shows the aggregate number. It’s so much calmer here when you don’t even notice that some proportion of people here are mashing that stupid downvote button.
If it’s innocently irrelevant I either ignore it or reply “I don’t get it”. Either the commenter realised they replied in the wrong place or you get a fascinating insight into the thought processes that made it seem worth their time typing out.
Oh right, the spam bots infested the place. I think it’s inevitable that if this place gets popular enough it’s going to suffer many of the same issues as Reddit. It’s not about the tech it’s about the people and people never change.
Even bots should have the error of their ways explained to them (or rather their handlers). If they don’t listen and learn then it’s time for the mods to drop the ban-hammer.
Especially the pointless cynicism of a “Didn’t happen” reply. My single most powerful change to make Twitter a less toxic place (ho, ho) when I used it was to block @DHOTYA_ and related keywords and anyone who used them.
Very odd. I've been playing with this, It looks like the text intensity drops slightly as the bottom of the post card (or rather its shadow) leaves the screen [or maybe that's not the trigger, more testing needed]. I'm perplexed, but will investigate. Thanks for reporting this!
Fixed it for them.