Comment on Donald Trump dominated extraordinary NATO summit that saw European defence spending increase
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Guys, downvotes are not for cases where you don’t like the news being reported. They’re for when the actual quality of reporting is poor, or when the topic doesn’t belong in the Community where it’s being posted.
I can’t see anything obviously wrong with the ABC’s reporting in this case, and this is pretty obviously “overseas news”, with an Aussie bent (it mentions Australia 7 times, and Albanese once), so it definitely belongs.
teft@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Downvotes are for whatever you want them to be for.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
What a dumb take. If you downvote a post that clearly belongs in a community just because you don’t like the news, all you’re doing is preventing others from learning about it. You’re not sending an anti-Trump message.
teft@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What i do with my downvotes is my own agenda. Same with your downvotes and your agenda.
Complaining about downvotes just earns more downvotes. Trying to police other peoples harmless behavior on the internet just because you don’t like it is just going to give you a headache.
Who says people are sending an anti trump message? Maybe they don’t like op. Maybe they don’t like the source. Maybe they always downvotes at midnight. You’ll never know because the internet is capricious and weird.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Oh, and if you’re downvoting because “they don’t like op”, that’s definitely not a valid use of the downvote. Use the block function.
If you don’t like the source, you’re right, that’s valid. But given it’s the ABC we’re talking about here, I very much doubt that’s it for enough people that this post got down to -3.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
You know that downvotes aren’t harmless, right? Your downvotes affect everyone.