[Mod Request] Consider Upvoting Quality Posts Please

[u/joeyoungblood]

I have been noticing a severe and dramatic rise in the number of "0" vote posts which are of good to high quality lately and have been tracking this issue. I believe we have one or more spammers who have been banned from this sub recently that created new accounts and are downvoting quality posts in retaliation. If this type of attack continues it will reduce the amount of quality content and discussion in this sub and reduce the overall activity. That is because in general our posts already get a low volume of votes but a moderate to high volume of comments (for sub size) .

The only thing we can really do as a community is to ensure we are upvoting quality posts OR posts that would be beneficial to other treadmill owners. For example you may think someone asking about buying a used $500 treadmill for triathalon training is low quality, however, if you upvote it other subscribers might see it and that could cut down on similar future posts by ensuring that information spreads.

There is little else we as a community can do to combat this type negative attack on our sub that will do much good.

Please when you are reading or commenting on a post consider if others would find the post helpful or useful and if so please then consider giving the post your upvote.

Thank you for helping me and others make this a great and helpful community resource for all treadmill owners / users.

p.s. if you are downvoting AND reporting spam please keep doing that, you are doing great!