Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments?

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The doing it doesn’t bother me so much as the “Hey so I was browsing through my downvotes and noticed you downvoted me. Justify your actions to me!” PMs.

  Like - I don’t even know who you are or what you’re talking about. Thanks for the research project so I can piece together all these disparate pieces of information so I can figure out wtf you’re even talking about.

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh. Yeah that’s fuggin weird. Did somebody do that to you? How fragile.

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    • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      Yeah. Not sure I’m proud of the response but I hadn’t given my self much time to think before responding…

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      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not judging. Weird conversation to be forced to have, hope they grow out of it

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  • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Hey so I was browsing through my downvotes and noticed you downvoted me. Justify your actions to me!” PMs.

    Yeah that’s a instant block lol

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  • AskewLord@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are insane people.

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• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was curious who the single down vote on every cat post was so I checked. It was a bunch of different people. I’m still confused.

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No arch enemies either? Want to be mine? We can downvote and reply-guy eachother until everyone’s uncomfortable

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I always think the single random downvote on an uncontroversial comment is odd, so sometimes I check into those. A few times it’s been from some account that has like 3 comments from 18 months ago and no activity since. Still scratching my head over those ones.

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    • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re probably scrolling on mobile and did it accidentally.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When enough people see something someone is likely to either dislike it or fat finger the down vote button accidentally. Nothing to overthink.

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  • Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People downvote for absolutely stupid reasons. It’s original intention was for handling trolls and off topic content but most of these people just use it as a ‘dislike’ button. These days more than ever, I feel like it’s something that should just be done away with because it gets proven over and over again that it only really ever gets used in bad faith anyway, and therefore adds nothing of value to the platform.

    That’s why I’m quite happy on an instance with downvotes simply disabled. Personally, between Reddit and Lemmy I’ve probably purposely downvoted about five things, when a person doesn’t know when to end an ‘argument’ and just becomes a troll.

    Last time I was more active here, I did end up getting into the habit of checking votes and honestly, it just makes me want to block people, even if they haven’t been downvoting me. If you’re the kind of person that goes around downvoting everything all day for stupid fkn reasons, you’re probably an unlikeable, insufferable turd in ‘real’ life too.

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    • Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      After spending the last year or so exploring mainstream social media, one of the biggest differences between Facebook and Instagram, is that Facebook has multiple reacts. And certain people, notably men, love to use the laugh react to bully people. You’ll find laugh reacts on everything from a trans person posting a selfie, to feminist pages posting about rape and abuse stats. On Instagram, the bigots are still there in the comment sections but they’re a lot easier to ignore because there’s a lot less noise in that regard, on how they’re allowed to react to things.

      After this experience, I 100% believe that the people who rely on the downvote button so much on platforms like this and Reddit, are actually exactly the same kind of fucking people that laugh react news stories about rape. Stupid, mean, cruel, stupid people who can’t spar with their stupid ideas, so all they have is a panic button to make them feel better.

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