It might be nice if lemmy clients (voyager, default client, etc) would make a suggestive pop-up:
Would you like to block this community? Your downvote ratio is 100% over the last X days/Y posts.
This is good for lemmy because it will let users have a more positive experience, its helping guide people to get better use of the user interface.
What are the advantages of downvotes anyway? If somebody breaks the rules, you can report them. If nothing is done about it, you can leave a community. If you dislike most of the content of an user or a community, you can give your negative feedback or block them. If you think somebody is wrong on some subject, you can correct them.
Sure, to be honest it feels good to press the downvote button on a comment or post I dislike, but I could live without it.
I mostly downvote when I think the comment is so wrong or bad but I have a feeling that commenting a response means a long drawn out back and forth that ends up being unproductive and me taking a lot of abuse.
I don’t have votes visibly on my app client though so even when I do it I don’t actually see the vote totals.