cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585
You should use archive.org or archive.today links.
The best way to influence the Domain Authority metric is to improve your site’s overall SEO health, with a particular focus on the quality and quantity of external links pointing to your site.
You can use the Wayback machine addon to easily get archived links https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/.
And a bookmarklet for archive.today:
javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))FYI, if you’re worried about archive.today going down and references being lost, you can manually leave in the original URL by adding https://archive.ph/o/ in front of any URL, after you archive it. IE: https://archive.ph/o/https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585 will redirect to the archived page, if it exists.
As someone who is primarily a poster here, let me just say, if you’re going to downvote for a reason like this, please say that’s why you’re downvoting if that’s what you’re going to do, at least the first time or so.
I post the least controversial stuff possible, yet still get random downvotes. I have no clue why. I don’t know if you don’t like the actual content, if you hate the source, if you hate the comment I made, if you hate me personally, or if you’re just a maniac that downvotes every single post. I want to post what makes my readers happy, but if you don’t tell me what it is you don’t like, I have no way of knowing!
I don’t post any Reddit content, but I, for better or worse, have to primarily source things off Facebook. I repost it so none of you need to go there. I add what I feel is valuable commentary when needed. I answer your questions on the content so you don’t have to go to the primary source you don’t want to participate in, but I share it solely so I am sharing the primary source. I can’t get much of the content I get (from animal rescues that have not the volunteers, time, or money to host their own sites, so they use what is free and easy and has the biggest audience because they rely on charitable giving) from anywhere else, and I will explain that to you if you still feel the need to downvote me every time anyway.
If you’re going to downvote someone for a non-obvious reason like a really bad take, poor manners, etc, I feel you should tell them why if you would like to actually see a change in behavior or maybe find out why they do what they do.
Ok.
I have a theory that the random handful of downvotes that tend to happen on a perfectly good post. On some mobile clients, it is really easy to accidentally downvote something with a gesture while scrolling. If you aren’t paying attention, you won’t even notice it.
Definitely another possibility. I know I’ve hit the buttons unintentionally before myself.
I just thought this was a good time to mention that if there was an intent behind it, like with the 2 commenters here, that it would be more productive to let the poster know rather than to assume they know why they’re being downvoted in those cases. It just helps both parties.