Site policies can prevent that kind of behavior in that particular site. It’s better than nothing.

I agree. One clear example is banning someone for participating on a community the mod doesn’t like. Admins should learn from reddit’s mistakes and limit what mods can and can’t do.

But what’s the actual problem with the ability for posts to have negative scores?

It incentives self censorship that turns sites into echo chambers. e.g. Reddit

There’s currently nothing stopping a mod from creating a bot to do the same. Maybe it’s already a thing.

Here

I like being able to say what I want without being banned by a power-tripping mod

There’s currently nothing stopping a mod from creating a bot that deletes comments below certain threshold or that bans users for commenting on communities they don’t approve like they did on Reddit. Only site policies can prevent that.

I agree, but there already is a karma system.

Nobody cared at all

The mods cared. There were many bots used by moderators that relied on karma, the main one being automoderator.

It did if your karma was low enough. It also affected whether your votes were counted or not.

Yes it does. Some filtering is done by reddit and some by the mods. Also your votes don’t count if you don’t have certain amount of karma accumulated on the sub you are voting.

Also as a right leaning person everytime I say an opinion I get downvoted to hell, which puts my score in negative.

You can see you total score here.

Lemmy only has the voting per individual post and comment, but doesn’t accumulate this as a sidewide score.

Lemmy does have a karma system. Here’s yours.

no offense

I will not ask my fellow lemmy community members to blindly trust me on this.

Ok, I don’t trust you.