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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.

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44 points

You’re missing pulling something out of their comment history without any context.

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36 points

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.

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23 points

Honestly, I can’t trust anyone who says:

Defaults to int if I’m not mistaken.

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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.

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3 points

Now-now it’s Reddit - he might have posted on one of the subs that people monitor with bots and silently autoban you from other subs for having ever participated in the offending sub. So he might very well have been Perma banned from 7 other subs for the comment, whether it was up voted, downvoted or totally ignored.

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88 points

This happens on Lemmy as well.

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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.

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30 points

You’d think this would only happen on political subjects. But nope, got downvoted today for commenting on Godzilla buoyancy.

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15 points

Well, is he buoyant or not?

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20 points

Make a comment about something other than beans or jeans?

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

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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

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5 points

right to jail

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6 points

or you’re just buried in bullshit copypasta from lemmygrad

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-4 points

This getting downvoted 🤌

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The default lemmy client allows hiding all votes though. And it doesn’t seem like the comments are sorted by their votes.

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3 points

Source?

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2 points

Trust me, bro

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It does for sure, but not as often in my experience. Reddit is just entirely full of teenagers now that think the downvote button is a dislike button

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2 points

It happened to me when I mistakenly said that people with “ski” endings to their surname are Jewish Poles when it in fact apparently only means they have Polish ancestry and nothing about their religion lol

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FYI: Not only polish ancestry. The suffix -ski (feminine: -ska), has been restricted to the nobility.

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And on any other platform with similar demographics that has a downvote option. Luckily magical internet points don’t matter and the worst that can happen is your comment gets hidden.

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68 points

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.

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57 points

I agree with you 100%. Have a downvote.

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I agree 100%. It just sucks when I go out of my way to post a thoughtfully-worded comment so I can positively contribute to Lemmy, only to have someone nitpick my comment and reply with an “Um, aktshually” and a downvote. The downvote brigading on Lemmy seems even more punitive than it was on Reddit; of course this varies largely depending on the post’s subject matter and instance.

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39 points

You see, the problem is that you’re genuinely concerned by virtual points

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2 points

His problem is that he’s wrong.

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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

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Also, not having a total karma count kinda makes up/down vote ratio on any individual comment or post irrelevant

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15 points

This depends on your client. A lot of them hide responses in the same way Reddit did.

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5 points

That’s because -5 was the default threshold for a comment being automatically hidden on reddit. Most people never bothered to change the setting.

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Ah i didn’t know it could be changed either

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I can’t even see downvotes on here and I quite like it. If someone can’t be bothered to actually tell me why I’m wrong I don’t care much about their opinion anyway.

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