You know that downvotes aren’t harmless, right? Your downvotes affect everyone.
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teft@lemmy.world 3 days agoWhat 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
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 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.
teft@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That might be your reason for the voting system. That doesn’t make it everyone else’s reason.
A downvote doesn’t stop people from seeing a post. They just have to scroll farther. Also your definition of “a perfectly good post” might not be the same as mine or someone else’s.
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.