It's always the insecure people that give a shit about down votes.
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What's wrong with my username?
I hated downvotes on Reddit because like merely 5 would silence all anti honeymoon's sentiment. This place, your can have a million downvotes but the comment is still there so i just count em as engagement points. Someone felt strongly, that means i wrote something worth reading in a way
Also, not having a total karma count kinda makes up/down vote ratio on any individual comment or post irrelevant
This depends on your client. A lot of them hide responses in the same way Reddit did.
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Lemmy isn't immune, I had a recent encounter that rubbed me wrong recently in a redditish way. It's quickly gone downhill here, I'm sure before too long, just like reddit I'll turn to lurk only then go away as the posts themselves become mostly intolerable.
It's all the toxic moderation thats turning lemmy into reddit 2.0. You can't be blunt because it hurts some removed boy's feelings
Is it though?
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yeah thats most of the internet for you.
Unless you're shitposting, or actually on a good topic, it's an absolute clusterfuck of a place.
Transcendence is not giving a fuck and being confidently wrong.
Honestly though, part of it. Internet weirdos gonna internet weirdo. Source : am internet weirdo
Transcendence is not giving a fuck and being confidently wrong.
sometimes i like to just, say the wrong opinion, for no reason other than i think it's funny. But also educational to watch how people react to things.
The word you're looking for might be "trolling". Which isn't bad, by all means, as long as you recognize what's happening
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If I give any kind of opinion I can understand downvotes on a comment of mine, but the totally innocuous ones that get downvoted are always funny.
i think it's just herd mentality. People see downvotes and then go "yeah downvote bad, me grug, me downvote comment also"
the amount of posts i saw about some negative thing that had comments that were like "i almost downvoted this" was concerning.
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I have made some bold political takes and gotten burned.
But I have also mentioned I could afford to buy a case of beer coming home from work 15 years ago, and likewise been burned.
This fuckin guy
The fool! He has fallen for the oldest trap there is
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"I posted incorrect information and then people downvoted it, so now people can't see the incorrect information I posted! This site is horrible!"
Sounds like it's working as advertised. Don't post incorrect info if you don't like downvvotes. Upvotes mean "more people should read this." Why do people need to read you being wrong? How is that a good contribution?
They're complaining that their admission of being wrong was getting downvoted, not about the main post.
> caring about downvotes
mfw when 🥱
This happens on Lemmy as well.
Better yet: on Lemmy it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, support yourself with facts or have someone else do it, admit mistake or not...if what you post isn't in alignment with the overall masses, it's ~~jail~~ downvotes.
You'd think this would only happen on political subjects. But nope, got downvoted today for commenting on Godzilla buoyancy.
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Make a comment about something other than beans or jeans?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
right to jail
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or you're just buried in bullshit copypasta from lemmygrad
This getting downvoted 🤌
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If you are attached to whether you’re attracting downvotes or upvotes you are setting yourself for disappointment for no reason. Just say your thing.
I agree with you 100%. Have a downvote.
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If I remember the ancient days correctly, you were supposed to downvote incorrect info so it wouldn't appear at the top? You weren't supposed to downvote if you disagreed but if it was wrong info? Am I hallucinating that?
You were supposed to upvote the best version of each argument/position or additional info and downvote the rest. Instead the site is the most popular opinion presented 6 different ways.
I believe you were "supposed" to upvote/downvote by whether the comment contributes to the discussion and community.
Those were still the rules when I left last year. People will upvote misinformation in the face of proof on there and here on lemmy.
If a platform puts arrow buttons on everything people say, and tell you that up means you get "points", it's a social metric. At this point if you're trying to create a consensus metric, you'll have to think of something else. It's too ingrained in us.
Lemmy has no total score anymore, so the up and down votes only matter in the topic layer. I think that's the best solution rn. There's no big incentive any longer to point farm.
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This kind of information is all suppressed now, but early on when Facebook only had likes, there was a lot of discussion on how downvotes weren't really needed. It was believed that people engaged more with content they enjoyed, and ignored unfavorable content.
This is wildly wrong. People obsessively engage with content they hate, to the extent that it probably makes more sense to only have a down vote button. Everyone knows that now, and the big sites uses psychological studies funded by casinos to gamify engagement, entirely in the pursuit of click-pennies.
What do votes mean? On lemmy it seems nothing. On other sites they mean revenue for the owners.
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I finally managed to cop a permanent ban. I've been running around telling every dick head moderator what I think of them for the last year
Anyone still check on Reddit? It's getting pretty conservative over there.
Heck, I often find Lemmy too conservative but its nothing as bad as reddit.
I have not seen one conservative take on Lemmy that wasn't down voted into oblivion. Lemmy has got some libs and some actual leftists, but I imagine most of the conservative servers have defederated by now.
Go to literally any politcal subs here. Its just tons of genocide approval and conservative economics
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I mean compared to Lemmy most spaces are getting conservative
I believe the term you’re looking for is FOSS fundamentalist communists 😅
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worldwide skill issue...the devil has a silver tongue
This is clearly fake. If it had really happened at least one person would have called them a slur and downvoted their entire post history, then they would have been permabanned from 7 different subreddits.
i had the experience of someone recently threatening to kill me or something if i was doxxed, i then promptly told them to go doxx me.
I was very disappointed to learn that they didn't doxx me.
You're missing pulling something out of their comment history without any context.
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