Comment on Donald Trump dominated extraordinary NATO summit that saw European defence spending increase
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days agoWhat 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.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Not everyone. We have them turned off for a reason!
teft@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Are the downvotes in the room with you right now?
Pixels on a screen denoting disagreement are harmless and if you feel otherwise maybe you should go touch grass to improve your mental health.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
The point of the voting system is to decide which posts are seen by more or fewer people.
If you downvote a perfectly good post, you’re stopping people from seeing it. You cannot try to justify that by pretending it’s harmless.