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The only time it sucks to not get upvoted is when you're downvoted because there's a bot on you so the things you post won't be seen.
Fortunately upvotes/downvotes on Lemmy do not affect visibility.
This is untrue. It depends on your sorting option. It does change sorting for "hot" for example. You can also sort exclusively by upvotes I think, as well as controversial. Active it does not matter though I don't think.
This is partly true. While upvoting has some effect, boosting (at least on Kbin) has a much greater effect on sorting. For example, no comments were boosted on this thread, with Omgarm's 12 upvote comment below 1984's 42 upvote comment when using hot sorting. I boosted Omgarm's comment and it is now at the top of the page despite have less than half the upvotes.
That's a weird system. I haven't used Kbin, except for where it intersects Lemmy, so I wasn't aware of that being a thing even. On Lemmy we don't see that sort of thing.
What does "blacklisting by admins" mean?
I didn't have my morning caffeine, I read it wrong. Thanks for explaining.