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Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this

Not necessarily the best example in this post, but in general, I find I get downvoted a lot when I make a good faith comment in .ml posts where I think I’m agreeing and am trying to understand the topic further. Getting 20 downvotes kind of kills my motivation to engage any further, though, so I usually just delete my comment , shrug, and move on. I’ve gotten to the point where I try to avoid wasting my time and energy commenting on .ml posts in the first place.

Maybe it’s just a different perspective on what a downvote means? To me, I’m generous with upvotes and withholding an upvote means I don’t find it interesting or disagree. I use downvotes sparingly for spam, trolling, comments made in bad faith, etc.

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Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

if a group gangs up and tells everyone with a slightly different worldview to fuck off, then they eventually will and said group will be all by themselves in their own echo chamber. If that’s the goal, then fair enough

Yes, that’s the goal. It’s a bunch of crazy people who want to be mean to anyone who disagrees with them. I don’t like it so i blocked it so I can’t see it. Maybe i have to ban mildlyinfuriating because people share these grad posts i dont like to see.

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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
good faith isn’t allowed on .ml

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chortle_tortle@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I think a big part of it comes from having such radical opinions, and having that amplified as a condition of the instance. Because of that you get people coming in all the time saying the same things, repeating what are (to those in the instance) the same old arguments heard a million times, the welcome can be easily over stayed. With that I think people that grew up in ‘The West’ tend to have a lot of assumptions they can’t really justify or place about communist countries, and when those show through in an instance full of history pervs that strongly disagree, their response is maybe not a full “fuck off”, but enough of one to downvote.

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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Reddit is terrible for downvoting questions and people who simply don’t know much about a subject. I hope the downvoters are never parents or teachers.

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