• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Paywalled.

      On a different subject, why would someone downvote a one-word comment that accurately describes what the content is behind?

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        1 year ago

        There are people who are pathologically contrarian. I’ve had to end a friendship over it—the endless need to say something negative about literally everything that ever happens and an unwillingness to be charitable to others.

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        1 year ago

        Because some of us have fat fingers and accidentally downvote when we scroll on mobile.

        One of the things I liked about reddit was that, since it saved downvoted posts, I could go through the list every once in a while and undownvote the accidents.

        Can’t do that here though, and I sometimes notice posts or comments I’ve accidentally downvoted.

        Anyway, people shouldn’t care so much, we don’t have a karma system or the like here anyways, so why does it matter?

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          Anyway, people shouldn’t care so much, we don’t have a karma system or the like here anyways, so why does it matter?

          Well, only speaking for myself, I don’t care, it just seemed so weird since it was an accurate single word, so I was curious.

          I also wonder sometimes if it’s a bot system purposely trying to force engagement.

          Lol trust me, I get downvotes all the time for things I say here on Lemmy. If I let them bother me I’d be in the psychiatric system by now.

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