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.
You're missing pulling something out of their comment history without any context.
Are we really going to listen to a guy who said this?
Neither the Orion Syndicate nor the Ferengi Alliance are members of the Federation.
Note: I literally picked one at random and feel like I got the best non-sequitur available.
Honestly, I can’t trust anyone who says:
Defaults to int if I'm not mistaken.
Can anyone in their right mind realy trust someone who said this:
Probably even brought out the fresh toilet paper for the loo’s.
You're the one to talk. How could I possibly trust someone who says this?
Everybody older than me is old and basicly dead,
What a hypocrite. You're talking about trust and saying things like this?!
E
Why should I trust you when you say shit like this:
vote on us or Russia will eat you
No, they got a point there...
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.
Well, is he buoyant or not?
Apparently. But the discussion was about how he achieves his buoyancy. But if you'd like to downvote my responses, feel free to pick any comment from my recent history.
Imma upvote just to spite you then
I thought he had really long expandable legs.
Make a comment about something other than beans or jeans?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
Thats something entirely different though. Using votes to show disagreement/agreement makes sense as a tool of democratic communication. This goes for comments that contain statements.
OP describes a "jail" type of usage, where there is nothing to disagree but people downvote amyways (to feel superior maybe), wich sucks cause it reads like hate
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.
You see, the problem is that you're genuinely concerned by virtual points
Once the hive mind takes over and the downvote train starts it’s all but impossible to turn your post positive regardless of contrition. It’s unfortunate because it removes some incentive to publicly self-correct.
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.
That's because -5 was the default threshold for a comment being automatically hidden on reddit. Most people never bothered to change the setting.
Yep, it's one of the most annoying thing about the site.
Yeah, good thing Lemmy is so much... better...
It's definitely something
Of all the entities that exist on the internet, this is by far one of them.
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?
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.
I believe you were "supposed" to upvote/downvote by whether the comment contributes to the discussion and community.
That's something to appreciate about Lemmy. People can destroy you while you hold a position they think is wrong, but as soon as you change your mind they are friendly.
EDIT: usually
So far a lot of the people I've interacted here have been more dense than reddit, I mean, a lot of the people here have been banned from reddit after all.
I mean, so was I. But it was for quoting someone's use of a slur so they couldn't edit it, then evading that bullshit ban. Apparently when you actively call out nazis and sexist assholes the powers that be will find a way to make you regret it.
Lemmy and most sites are a lot better when you turn off likes/votes/whatever arbitrary number they call it. I don't really give a shit how many people like/dislike something.
Anyone still check on Reddit? It's getting pretty conservative over there.
I mean compared to Lemmy most spaces are getting conservative
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.
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.
