Comment on You earned some more dislikes
Hawke@lemmy.world 11 hours agoI just find it very odd, the seeming beginning of a Lemmy culture of “you would downvote me? EXPLAIN YOURSELF SIR”
No, I should not need to explain myself, a downvote shouldn’t carry that much weight, it’s not that big of a deal. Less than a middle-finger or even a thumbs down. At most a disagreeing shake of the head in conversation.
Further, the reasons can be their own, maybe someone wants to downvote everyone with a username starting with “h” just for a fun gimmick.
irate944@piefed.social 11 hours ago
It has nothing to do with explaining oneself, but more about fostering discussion. You can check my earlier reply where I explain it better.
Hawke@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Sure but not every opinion needs to be a discussion. There’s nothing wrong with downvoting or upvoting and moving on.