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I've seen threads where every single comment, no matter how anodyne, has 1 downvote. Don't bother yourself over it. That way lies madness.
I always figure it's someone whose life has become so pathetic, they bitterly downvote every single comment to try feel some control. And as a result, they feel like the Phantom of the Socials. Alone, but the true master of the place.
"Everyone must wonder, 'Who keeps downvoting us?' It is I! The true Master of Lemmy and- No, mother!... Yes, mother!... I tried but nobody wants to talk to me!... I don't want to!... Yeah, she's cute!... I don't want you to do that!... Mother put the phone down!"
LOL, I can picture this person. They probably have a gross-looking bandaid on their downvote finger.
anodyne /ăn′ə-dīn″/ adjective
tanks fer noo werd dae fren
That sounds like a misusage of a very common word in French: anodin
I'd say a good 10% of English is just misusing words from other languages to be fair.
First read serving sausage pain.
It's also really easy to mis-swipe on a comment on some apps.
Some people also suck
Downvoting for the use of an uncommon word.
Supercalifragalisticexpialidocuious
Edit: 10 people here didn't grow up with Mary Poppins.....
Sound was quite atrocious, downvoted 👎
I think people are missing the joke here 😄
Venn diagram of Lemmy users and Mary Poppins stans barely touching.
You spelled it wrong you brick.
You could even say his spelling is quite atrocious
Lmao the down votes on this are really funny to me
Just imagine baron bomburst and the child catcher furiously downvoting this comment lol
What I get a kick out of is the down and upvotes mean basically nothing and yet people still get super sensitive about them. They only move your comment up or down the thread. It's not like reddit where there is a karma count for all your posts and comments. Hell you don't even get auto hidden like the way reddit would do. You just get downvoted.
Some people downvote to show disapproval. Others downvote if the comment doesn't add to the conversation. Still others are just trolling. No one should worry about the downvotes.
See I look at it differently.
An upvote means:
And a downvote means: