Always remember that one internet dweller with 10 accounts can consistently manipulate downvotes to change perspective of certain opinions.
You guys are getting downvotes?
I literally cannot see downvotes
Constantly because I don’t like seeing propaganda about my country (🇲🇽) but a lot of the lemmy users seem to love their populist (and very conservative) goverment.
Also there are things I don’t like about Linux or missing programs that are Windows only (like Music Bee and some Adobe programs).But mostly because I’m a fucking asshole.
Hell, I love downvotes. It either means I’m wrong and need to check myself, or I made some people really mad. Win win.
Yep. Plus internet points aren’t real
Tell that to the mods on dbzero lol
Never before have I seen a batch of such fragile maniacs.
What did they do? This sounds juicy
Various communities on there, mostly AI themed communities (maybe more) will ban people for downvoting. In their defence, AI across the fediverse is pretty unpopular - so without it they’d be hammered into negatives almost every post.
Ah, gotcha. Yeah stable diffusion and AI art seemed like a core element of their instance a couple years ago. If people are going to their instances community and down voting all AI stuff I’m sure it would ruffle their feathers. It would be like going into a mattress store just to say all mattresses are bad because you don’t care for them. https://p.lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/lemmy.dbzer0.com/13211160?thread=0.8857475#8857475
I mostly appreciate dbzer0 for their piracy, FOSS, and anarchist views. Also I think it’s in their rules that people will be banned for right wing nonsense. I’m not really an anarchist myself, but I would plead the 5th on piracy and always love FOSS projects
People were being banned because they downvoted AI slop as it appeared on their feeds, not seeking it out and downvoting everything.
Noticing that “or”
Pineapple belongs on pizza
Pineapple, bacon, jalapeno is my favorite pizza.
I live in a country where nobody would bother disputing it, it seems like such a weird thing to have a disagreement over.
Pineapple on pizza is so fucking good, it makes me wonder what other fruits would be good on it too (besides tomato, obviously). Apples and cinnamon might work. Or maybe lychee and Korean beef?
Somebody needs to do some experiments with different fruits and report back.
You know, I would have considered this a cardinal sin a decade ago, but it’s actually so good!
I’ll raise the ante a bit, as I’ve been adding salt to my work coffee lately.
Try Pig’n’Pineapple with pineapple, bacon, ham, sausage, and some BBQ sauce. Pretty damn good pizza. Throw on some onions if you have em lying around too.
Don’t care for Hawaiian pizza but pineapple on a veggie pizza is fire.
More often than not, when I see I’ve been downvoted, I take pride.
It means you’re annoying the right people. Probably.
There is an unending treadmill of people who consistently apply a sprinkling of two or three downvotes on all of my posts (not comments), which at this point I’m convinced are people who don’t understand that Lemmy doesn’t have an algorithm, as such, and think clicking the down arrow means “don’t show me stuff like this in the future.” Which is not how it works.
You don’t get rid of me that easily, in other words.
My instance Blahaj has downvotes disabled, so I just ignore/block things I don’t like and upvote what I do. I like that better honestly.
Unlike Reddit, there is no profile Karma in Lemmy. Downvote me all you want you bastards!
Downvotes without replies mean nothing. I’m hurt if someone actually refuted or corrected my comments with valid view points, which happens all the time and I take that L and learn from it.
I have no reason to not talk what I think here, except for doxxing and irl saftey off course. Also fuck censorship. I actually expect one day for my account to get banned by some power-tripping or PC mod. I’ll just add +1 to my username and migrate to another instance xD
Have you already moved 77 times?
I was answersplease0 when I signed up for reddit!!
Unlike Reddit, there is no profile Karma in Lemmy.
It’s not shown and as far as I’m aware no one has written a tool to fetch it, yet. But the info is there.
I have OP tagged as vegan douche, lmao
How is that relevant?
They frequently get a fuck ton of down votes for spewing batshit crazy rhetoric.
What aren’t you getting?
I was just asking, fuck. No need to be condescending.
It’s the guy that wrote this a couple months ago when I hurt their feelings.
Well that explains this:
I said I had them tagged as ‘vegan’ douche. Which is context.
They genuinely believe saying someone is a vegan was sufficient context to explain. They’re just a bigot towards vegans.
The funniest thing is that I’m not vegan at all, which shows how fucking stupid they really are.
Lmao, “are the vegans in the room with us right now?”
Your response/question wasn’t exactly neutral in tone. Maybe don’t take a (second) swing here.
Saying you have someone tagged as a douche with zero context “wasn’t exactly neutral in tone” either. Which is why I asked.
I said I had them tagged as ‘vegan’ douche. Which is context.
Also I’m referring to OP in that post, so you know, the context is… The thread were both in.
It wasn’t intended to be neutral in tone. I was clearly making a remark at what’s behind OPs entire posting of this thread. Clearly others had no issue connecting these dots.
You’re 0/3.
Why are you so hostile? I asked a question. That’s it. That’s literally all I did. I’m not a mind reader. All you had to say was “this poster has a history of posting snarky things that get downvoted” when I asked and it would’ve made sense. Not everyone replying to you is attacking you. Not everyone is keeping score. Not everyone is tone policing you. Believe it or not, some people just wanna talk. Some people are just curious when they don’t understand why something was said. Is that so hard to believe? Is that really so hard to believe foggy? That when I asked you how it was relevant I was just curious how it was relevant? That I didn’t have an ulterior motive? That I wasn’t mad? That I wasn’t trying to get you?
The incredible urge I have to downvote this post from all my accounts 😫😫
But honestly I can’t imaginge anyone cares enough to do that do they?
Even my most controversial posts have had maybe a 100 downvotes I wanna say. And that would be for a post with a lot of engagement. Posts with little engagement barely cross 10-15 downvotes even at their most controversial.
IS IT AS STRONG AS YOUR URGE TO EAT MANGOES??
NOTHING is as strong as my urge to devour mangoes
One account is ok. Don’t bridge your seperate accounts on non spam topics.
The reason I have more than one account is bc I mod communities from different accounts. So even if one instance is down I can use a different account. Not for interacting with content.
I downvote whenever I don‘t like the news. Is that wrong?
IMO. Yes. You should downvote things that are low effort, rage bait, or falsehoods.
You shouldn’t downvote things you don’t like or things you don’t agree with. For the latter you should really explain why you don’t agree, you may change the person point of view.
I upvoted you because you asked a question and seeking knowledge should be rewarded.
That said this place seems to downvote anything that questions the status quo of this place. I liken it r/conservative.
Well, that‘s more or less the way I used to do it. And in my experience the up and down numbers do make sense that way. Only, at one point I couldn‘t bring myself to „like“ a post about starving kids to death anymore. Contributor popularity contest be damned. The UI offers a controversial ranking beside the hot setting, after all.
I like to frame it as less a “popularity contest” and more the higher the upvotes the more visibility it will get. Surely visibility of things is how we spread awareness?
Although, I would say not here as this place has become pretty echo chamber like.
I think my instance has downvotes disabled or hidden. It also has a neat alternative front-end which turns upvote buttons into hearts, so it’s more of a “like” count.
It’s much more peaceful that way.
Ive found Lemmy much less stressful to use since I just turned off vote count visibility. Less urge to check on how my comments are doing despite it not really mattering.
I was looking for someone else to mention this.
The karma system on Reddit trapped me hard and the constant validation seeking was really a drag on my mental health. Getting one negative score comment would ruin my day, I really just want to be understood. I realize how unhealthy that is, but I’m not really sure what to do about it besides just not interacting with that place anymore. I don’t have as much of a problem with being wrong in real life, it’s more the fact that online I have the opportunity to take my time, be meticulous, edit my post to make sure it’s perfect and I have said exactly what I wanted to in the exact way I wanted to…
Coming here and being able to disable the counts has been an absolute dream.
Never put more of your attention on the downvotes you get vs the upvotes you get.
A handful of downvotes is normal.
Yes, and ignoring the popularity of a comment is liberating. That said, I always worry about offending people I actually agree with due to wording. Like, Lemmy is fairly international, plus text can be ambiguous in tone sometimes (and people suffering depression or have various conditions can read neutral as negative or hostile, etc.)
If they comment, I try to clarify things and/or apologize, though. Hurting a nice, kind person (even if a stranger) can bother me for quite a while… Though I suppose they’re not at likely to mass down vote you if they’re kind.
One angry conservative downvoting everything all day long, every day.
There is at least one angry liberal downvoting all day too. (Probably more than one in each group). Try to do better yourself. For bonus points (worthless but a great feeling when you can bring yourself to it) up vote a well reasoned arguement you disagree with!
Or, if it bothers you too much, just join an instance that doesn’t show downvotes.
