Comment on Is anyone else apprehensive to down voting even if you're being down voted?
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You’re supposed to downvote. If something is off topic especially, but also if something is toxic or against the rules.
If there was a community where the joke was “you can only reply PANTS” and then someone started to comment about the downfall of capitalism, you downvote that shit into oblivion even if you agree with it out of context.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Off topic tends to be used very subjectively, particularly if someone just dislikes the comment. Particularly when someone takes one line from a comment that’s on topic to say the comment is off topic. Not always of course but it’s rare so far as I’ve seen.
Now as for breaking rules or just being verbally violent, most definitely.
velma@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Commenting “as a man” in a women’s only community will get you downvoted even if it’s on topic.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah human error got me on that one. I did apologize to everyone. I would have added an apology to the comment but I can’t 😕. Thankfully the mod was understanding I goofed.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t think off topic is very subjective that often, and if you’re not sure just don’t vote. I gave an example of off topic behavior and, you know, it was too help you out. So you wouldn’t feel so bad about down voting. And then you tried to bicker with me about the details.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah like the example you gave is a good example of someone being off topic. It’s just that I don’t see that circumstance very often personally. More so i have personally seen it used in a disagreement type way, like a single sentence will be taken out of a comment and used to say the whole comment is off topic when I personally didn’t feel they were as egregiously off topic like in the example you gave.