You guys are getting downvotes?
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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
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.
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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!!
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
I just view downvotes as "these people are not seeing what im seeing". It certainly doesnt chance my mind. I need actual arguments for that.
One angry conservative downvoting everything all day long, every day.
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Or, if it bothers you too much, just join an instance that doesn't show downvotes.
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